Jail or Flogging

[Troll]

Interestingly it gives criminals the choice between a custodial or flogging punishment

Prisons impose tremendous costs, yet they're easily ignored. Criminals-- even low-level nonviolent offenders-- enter our dysfunctional criminal justice system and disappear into a morass that's safely hidden from public view. Our "tough on crime" political rhetoric offers us no way out, and prison reformers are too quickly dismissed as soft on criminals. Meanwhile, the taxpayer picks up the extraordinary and unnecessary bill.

In Defense of Flogging presents a solution both radical and simple: give criminals a choice between incarceration and the lash. Flogging is punishment: quick, cheap, and honest.

[Halo Jones]

Could put a lot of “ladies” out of business in the City, all those business men will just do some petty theft & opt for the flogging

[BrilloPad]

It would be better to bring back the cane for teenage children.

[d000hg]

It would be better to bring back the cane for teenage children.

Keep your fantasies to yourself.

[doomage]

How about introducing flogging in prisons, to make them less like a holiday camp (or centre parcs if you get my drift).

[vetran]

Watched 'Question time' and then 'Coppers' what slowly became clear to me was that much of the police time is spent dealing with substance abuse and if the alternative to prison was forced treatment then everything would be better.

I'm a fan of early stringent rehabilitation and subsequent offences are dealt with more harshly.


Flogging seems like revenge as it doesn't resolve the issue in most cases.

[d000hg]

How about introducing flogging in prisons, to make them less like a holiday camp (or centre parcs if you get my drift).

You've been to prison then, to know what it's like?

[doomage]

You've been to prison then, to know what it's like?

Nope. Not been to a holiday camp either.

[d000hg]

I guess you read it in a reliable source like The Sun then.

[doomage]

I guess you read it in a reliable source like The Sun then.

Might have been the daily mail. Better than getting a sense of humour from the guardian.