Re: B Ark Colonist and Colonial Industry... [LONG[

I don't want to sound unusually conservative, but it does cost quite a
bit of money to send people to hell-and-gone, keep them fed and healthy,
and have guards and ships trundling around picking up after them.
Prisoners might not be terribly motivated to produce, for a number of
reasons, but you'd have to send the oreships every month (or whatever)
anyway. And protect them when they got there. etc, etc.

I suspect it would be considerably cheaper to hire professional miners
to mine, and merely exile prisoners. Or kill them out of hand, depending
on your government's policy. 

Roger Books wrote:
> 
> A different kind of sentence.  Put them in a dangerous environment
> that needs minerals extracted.  They are sentanced to produce X
> amount of  mineral at which point they are set free.	Those with
> drive that could be an asset to society get free sooner because
> they work hard.  Those that are lazy (or stupid) never return.

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