Jeff Jacoby states that no matter what crime you commit, the penalty of choice is incarceration. Even someone who has done a petty theft goes to prison it could cost the government at least $30,000 a year to house them. Which starts to add up as time passes by.
Imagine a first time offender of any petty crime being subject to flogging, if this stops any other criminal activity by them to continue This method just saved us $30,000 for every year he would have been held inside the prison system, not only that but according to jacoby when a prisoner finishes their sentence in prison, he compares this …show more content…
Would you still consider then, that whipping someone is more brutal and degrading than to knowingly send a person to the correctional system for minor crimes, knowing they will be raped and that there’s a percentage that they might not even make it alive. To me I know that whipping is sounding less degrading than to be abused by other inmates without guards caring about the outcome you’re in.
Jeff Jacoby mentions that the United States houses so many inmates that the penal system can’t handle the influx at which criminals are being arrested, thus making many states go into marathons to build more facilities to put their prisoners in. The way in which crime is going out of control is alarming to the criminal justice system, that to ease the pressure of processing all this