This is an idea for individual states to use... Judges should have the option to add 'banishment' when sentencing convicted criminals to time in prison. At the end of his time in prison a convicted felon must leave the state and is bard from ever retuning or risk going back to prison for life!

The benefits are as follows:

--- Keeps the criminals away from the victims.
Victims of rapes and muggings will not need to worry (as much) about seeing their assailants again.

--- Gets the guy away from his jerk friends and co-conspirators.
Lets face it - many guys who are in prison are there because they had help and encouragement from stupid people they call friends. If they are forced to move to another state, they will no longer be influenced by those 'friends'.

--- Would help to breakup criminal organizations.
Whether we are talking about street gangs, drug cartels or the mob - it will be much harder for crime bosses to conduct organized crimes with half their boys banished from the state.

What do you think?

Could get messy, especially if the criminal's have families and homes. But the benefits sound good.

How about certain severities of crimes get bannished from the country itselft, or after so many crime points are accumulated they would then be bannished from the US. This would then slowly trickle down the crime rate in the us

After reading the posts on this forum (and on my own forum where I posted the same idea http://forum.normandcompany.com/ ) I've decided that my idea is not so great after all. As one person put it: "It's like tossing dog poop out of your yard into someone else's yard".
Thank you for your posts everyone.