Flogging: Coming To A U.S. Prison Near You?

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What do you think? Caning instead of prison for lesser offenses, or too violent?


Criminologist Peter Moskos: Give offenders a choice–prison or FLOGGING; (he's serious)

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Jay Kernis - Senior Producer

ONLY ON THE BLOG: Answering today’s OFF-SET questions is Peter Moskos, assistant professor of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He also teaches at the City University of New York’s Doctoral Program in Sociology. A former Baltimore, Maryland police officer, he is author of the book, “Cop in the Hood."

Moskos’s new book is entitled, “In Defense of Flogging.”


The Supreme Court has affirmed a federal order telling California to reduce its overflowing prison population, a situation the majority said "falls below the standard of decency." California now has to figure out how to reduce the population by more than 30,000 prisoners. From your point of view, why does the prison system in the U.S. continue to fail?
READ MORE HERE--->   http://inthearena.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/24/criminologist-peter-moskos-give-offenders-a-choice-prison-or-flogging-hes-serious/