What should a country do with a prisoner it has itself radicalized?

[Recursion]

I'm thinking obviously of the prisoners in GITMO that we can't find a country to take in.

Grant for the sake of argument that we're talking about prisoners who were entirely free from wrongdoing when we shipped them to prison (this was the case for some of them)

Grant for the sake of argument that they now are angry enough at the US to help advance terrorist plans against us or countries deemed too close to us.

What do you do at that point? Pericles told the Athenians that "this empire was wrong to grasp, but dangerous to let go of"; what do you say about that argument?

[G_j]

1. What does America do with with the people

it releases from its criminal factories? (the federal prison system)

[Recursion]

2. Well we sure don't have a good answer for that, either (nt)

[G_j]

3. that's what I was thinking

I know the Rs in particular will never go for the Gitmo prisoners being taken in here in the US.

[Robb]

5. Let 'em out. Then just sit back and wait.

Because with a deliberately high recidivism rate, business will always be booming.

I figure that's the plan with Gitmo, too.

[Recursion]

7. Isn't Glenn Beck building a compound somewhere?

An idea just struck me...

[randome]

8. It's too bad Whedon's Dollhouse closed up.

We could mind-wipe them then imprint them all with Glenn Beck's personality.

"I am Glenn Beck."
"No, I am."

Eventually even Glenn Beck would doubt his own Beck-ninity.

(Um, guess I shouldn't be cracking jokes about this. I'll stop now.)

[randome]

4. Well, there is an upcoming Mars mission, I hear.

Seriously, I don't know the answer. We need desperately to close Gitmo and stop force-feeding people.

OTOH, if they are desperate enough to go on hunger strikes, maybe we should repatriate them and ask their governments to keep an eye on them for us.

And then hope for the best.

[Recursion]

6. We had to shop around the Uighurs to like 20 countries

I forget who eventually took them but it took Secretary Clinton threatening to cut off all of their aid if they didn't take them. And those are people that pretty much everybody agrees were innocent going in.

[FarCenter]

9. Send them back to their country of origin.

[Recursion]

10. In most cases they won't take them, or US law forbides us from returning them

Many come from countries we can't legally return them to because we have a reasonable suspicion that the regime would torture or kill them.

Others come from countries where that isn't the case, but those countries have stated they will refuse to let them back in.

It is, in a word, FUBAR.

[FarCenter]

11. Send them back anyway

Many come from countries we can't legally return them to because we have a reasonable suspicion that the regime would torture or kill them.

Change the law. What their country does to their citizens is not our problem.

Others come from countries where that isn't the case, but those countries have stated they will refuse to let them back in.

Put prisoner in capsule, attach parachute, put capsule and parachute in drone, and drop off prisoner over country of origin.