There are practical considerations to trying to move an entire prison population at once, from a lack of busses to a lack of anyplace else to house them. It’s a shit sandwich no matter how you slice it.

another solution is to not have 0.4% of the country's population imprisoned

Maybe if we didn't have such a large prison population it would be easier

Ah, so I guess the only option is "kill 'em through negligence" then, there is no other possible alternative.

I feel like if they can’t house them safely they gotta just open the gates ethically speaking