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exile[w83,jmc]		Exiling criminals

	Every once in a while, the press in the Soviet Union and/or
other communist controlled countries complains that some American
criminal, condemned to death or some lesser penalty, is innocent and
a victim of racism or some other evil of capitalism.  Whenever, this
happens, the governor of the state concerned should consider offering
to reprieve the criminal into the custody of the ambassador of the
country concerned, on the condition that the criminal never return
to the U.S.  Since a reprieve and not a commutation or pardon is
involved, the original penalty can be exacted should the criminal
return.  In fact, the offer might be made general; any foreign
country may take the criminal who wants him, and even a matter
of policy, i.e. the offer stands that any country may take any
criminal with some exceptions.  The only obvious exception is when
the crime was committed on behalf of the country concerned.

	This will produce a small weakening of deterrent, since
a criminal may hope to be exiled, but I believe the effect will
be small, since other countries will soon learn that these criminals
are almost always unrehabilitable and will commit crimes in the
countries that accept them.  Criminals that accept exile to the
Soviet Union will usually wind up in the Gulag soon enough.

	Another example was the Attica uprising where the criminals
wanted to go to North Korea.  Governor Rockefeller should have
accepted immediately.  I'll be the North Koreans would never have
made the offer again.