What makes it worse is the amount of people that are locked up, which according to the reading is 1.6 million and increasing. If the amount of convicts keep increasing, the cost of confining them will also increase. This is why it’s true, we need an effective way to decrease the amount of criminals. However the author makes it seem like people aren’t threatened by the thought of going to prison and that it won’t keep people from wanting to stay out of it. He believes that there’s some kind of admiration for doing time and they become a “status symbol”. Whether it’s true or not that people will respect someone more after coming out of prison because they’re supposedly more of a man, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re not going to care whether they go back or not. I feel as if going to prison is the best way to make someone want to change their ways, and publicly punishing someone would do the opposite. Jacoby said that there’s no respect in being publicly flogged and that if it were to be done after their first conviction it would prevent the wrongdoer from becoming a lifelong felon. I think the opposite, and believe that it would be giving them a slap on the wrist, and being embarrassed will only make them rebel more. With this kind of punishment, the person who was flogged would want to redeem themselves and do something to gain the respect they
What makes it worse is the amount of people that are locked up, which according to the reading is 1.6 million and increasing. If the amount of convicts keep increasing, the cost of confining them will also increase. This is why it’s true, we need an effective way to decrease the amount of criminals. However the author makes it seem like people aren’t threatened by the thought of going to prison and that it won’t keep people from wanting to stay out of it. He believes that there’s some kind of admiration for doing time and they become a “status symbol”. Whether it’s true or not that people will respect someone more after coming out of prison because they’re supposedly more of a man, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re not going to care whether they go back or not. I feel as if going to prison is the best way to make someone want to change their ways, and publicly punishing someone would do the opposite. Jacoby said that there’s no respect in being publicly flogged and that if it were to be done after their first conviction it would prevent the wrongdoer from becoming a lifelong felon. I think the opposite, and believe that it would be giving them a slap on the wrist, and being embarrassed will only make them rebel more. With this kind of punishment, the person who was flogged would want to redeem themselves and do something to gain the respect they