This article in The Times http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article3793635.ece made me wonder whether it would be feasible to set up a giant American-style super prison on West Falkland Island. There is more than enough space there (the island is the size of Yorkshire), and no problems with planning approval. The convicts can eat fish and grow potatos and the facility would contribute to the Islands' economy.
We can then put all our long-term prisoners there and forget about them.
It would be our own private gulag.
Bit far for the social workers to travel, so the inmates would be short on molly-coddling.
But for a "tough on crime and tough on the criminals" policy it would hard for the left to outflank us.
We could also perhaps have a welcome-reception-and-processing facility on the island to handle all asylum applicants, following the system currently under consideration by the Labor government in Australia: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19240306
We can then put all our long-term prisoners there and forget about them.
It would be our own private gulag.
Bit far for the social workers to travel, so the inmates would be short on molly-coddling.
But for a "tough on crime and tough on the criminals" policy it would hard for the left to outflank us.
We could also perhaps have a welcome-reception-and-processing facility on the island to handle all asylum applicants, following the system currently under consideration by the Labor government in Australia: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19240306
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