Thinking: Prisons everywhere are full of people. Those who are sentenced to life and who won’t ever get out are a commodity which can be used to push the boundaries of humanity into the stars and beyond.
Put them into suspended animation and fire them off into space in a computer guided pod, to planets beyond our Earth, with basic tools and equipment to survive for a short period of time and let them survive or die, as the case might be.
The pods don’t need to be anything more than basic, the coldness of space will keep them in suspended animation until they get where they are going and if they don’t get there for any reason, small loss.
The more pods that are sent to specific locations, the more chance a few will survive and start a new colony of humanity.
Send males and females, so they can have kids and grow each colony.
The successful ones get a lifetime pardon and assistance with materials and supplies sent to them in other simple pods, like seeds, water and air producing technology, etc.
Plenty of lifers whose bodies could extend the human race, rather than take up wasted space in prisons everywhere.
