Response to "Bring Back Flogging"
Jeff Jacoby is a strong advocate for bringing some of the corporal punishment ideals from the Puritans back into modern society. Additionally, the reasons Jacoby gives are agreeable and have an abundant number of sources to back them up. I personally agree with the author's stance on corporal punishment as well as his reasonings for such an opinion. These reasons being: (1) The price of keeping criminals incarcerated is expensive especially with how many inmates there are and (2) The prisons are bursting with overpopulation.
Summary
In The Boston Globe article “Bring Back Flogging,” Jacoby suggests that instead of incarceration convicts should be whipped or paddled in a public forum like that of older times. He believes that this would humiliate and be painful enough to stop the offender from ever committing another crime. With all of these reasons, the author finally gets to …show more content…
According to Jacoby, “The Boston Globe reported in 1994 that more than 200,000 prison inmates are raped each year usually to the indifference of the guards.” (Jacoby, 1997, Para. 12). In another article, Bring back the lash: why flogging is more humane than prison, author Peter Moskos gives a detailed description of why this happens. For example, “Today violent offenders are mixed with immigrants who may have committed no crime other than crossing our border….” (Moskos, 2011, Para. 18). Compared to being raped and even murdered in prison, flogging seems to be the more viable, humane option as a form of punishment and thus should be used instead of incarceration. Each convict should get different forms of punishment based on what they were convicted for and so forth. Additionally, this would seem more fair because usually in the criminal justice system some people are given more time than others when it should be the other way around or some people do not get time in prison when they
Jeff Jacoby is a strong advocate for bringing some of the corporal punishment ideals from the Puritans back into modern society. Additionally, the reasons Jacoby gives are agreeable and have an abundant number of sources to back them up. I personally agree with the author's stance on corporal punishment as well as his reasonings for such an opinion. These reasons being: (1) The price of keeping criminals incarcerated is expensive especially with how many inmates there are and (2) The prisons are bursting with overpopulation.
Summary
In The Boston Globe article “Bring Back Flogging,” Jacoby suggests that instead of incarceration convicts should be whipped or paddled in a public forum like that of older times. He believes that this would humiliate and be painful enough to stop the offender from ever committing another crime. With all of these reasons, the author finally gets to …show more content…
According to Jacoby, “The Boston Globe reported in 1994 that more than 200,000 prison inmates are raped each year usually to the indifference of the guards.” (Jacoby, 1997, Para. 12). In another article, Bring back the lash: why flogging is more humane than prison, author Peter Moskos gives a detailed description of why this happens. For example, “Today violent offenders are mixed with immigrants who may have committed no crime other than crossing our border….” (Moskos, 2011, Para. 18). Compared to being raped and even murdered in prison, flogging seems to be the more viable, humane option as a form of punishment and thus should be used instead of incarceration. Each convict should get different forms of punishment based on what they were convicted for and so forth. Additionally, this would seem more fair because usually in the criminal justice system some people are given more time than others when it should be the other way around or some people do not get time in prison when they