your sick, id never shoot a criminal into space, because its too expensive, it costs about 100 million to get a man into space no criminal is worth that for any reason.
we should build a space ship of 10 000 tons which can have a crew of 300 to send it into the asteroid belt and reproduce, have smelters and 3d printers to be able to reproduce itself , with solarcells and whatever needed to keep 300 people alive
i think that space ship would cost about 2 trillion $
it would be great for the economy, specially high tech
Yes, that's a good idea too.
By the way, do you know how much prison service contractors charge per prisoner per year? Easily a 100,000 dollars. That way it is not so expensive.
Also there is the possibility to build a stratospheric space elevator to a geo synchronous small space station, where the elevator could be reached by helicopters. Then a much cheaper rocket could be used from the geo synchronous space station to a larger Lagrangian space station or the Moon. From there then we can shoot them really cheap to anywhere we want. Plus the more we shoot them, the volume makes it the more cheap.