Petition A MESSAGE FROM HISTORY - BRING BACK TRANSPORTATION AND THE GULAG

Throughout history, criminals have been transported or sent to gulag work camps to pay their debt to society. Soft, "big society" rehabilitative justice does not work. Make convicts work for a living by making them contribute to society, paying by blood, sweat, tears and elbow grease.
The government should pick underdeveloped rural and deprived inner-city areas to be rejuvenated at no cost to the tax payer, without paying lip service and dividends to the private sector. Such an undertaking would foster a sense of David Cameron's big society, kick-start the local economy, and provide much-needed local services, thus reducing the local carbon footprint.