I have pointed to this YouTube video by a friend. It is a demonstration video for a new graphics engine, but rather than a simple demonstration, the makers opted to make a short film which from the looks of things has a very disturbing backstory, which puts a whole new spin on the idea of exile.
As I see it what you have is the mass release of felons whose minds have been downloaded into Robots, and from the appearance of the two individuals that turn up to greet the new exiles it would appear that a new society, with distinctly Japanese leanings has formed somewhere off camera.
This could be used as the basis of a 'jailbreak' scenario, then there is the obvious question, what happened to the original of the uploaded mind...