[bvw]

Desereved jail time

No, he deserved a handful of lashes, but no one deserves jail. Bring back the whip and close most jails.

[freedomfiter2]

No, he deserved a handful of lashes, but no one deserves jail. Bring back the whip and close most jails.

That makes too much sense.

[Jim Noble]

...no one deserves jail. Bring back the whip and close most jails.

I've been saying this for years.

There are four classes of reprisal for offenses that make sense.

In descending order of severity, they are:

1) Death

2) Permanent physical isolation

3) Immediate physical punishment

4) Restitution

Prisons are an inverted world where good is evil, and evil, good. They train the worst criminals in our world to escalate their behavior, and most offenders come out worse than they went in.

I would close all prisons and replace them with punishment on the scale above.

[count-your-change]

Bring back the whip? The idea does have merit.
It would be quick and cheaper than jail though holding someone in jail for trial and whipping day may be necessary.
The whipping should be done in public so public shame could be part of the punishment and the injured parties could actually see justice done.
It would allow the offender to quickly receive their punishment and be done with it instead of dragging it out over many months.
In any event, I wouldn't blame the father, no one has a right to break into his home and he has no obligation to tolerate it. The father didn't cause the son to be in jail, the son did. (see tagline)

[cubreporter]

You know...I am concerned about jails too. I don’t understand how so much violence can go on inside a jail? How is it allowed? Shouldn’t each inmate have a cell and when it is time to go somewhere a guard accompanies them? How come so many people get hurt in the jails? I may not understand it all but it seems it should be a simple thing. If you lock someone up you lock someone up. How come so many can gather and hurt others? Something is wrong with the jail system. I would like it if we could find a better way to incarcerate a person other than a jail. It’s antiquated and we need to find a better way for EVERYONE...because what happened to this young man was wrong and someone should be punished for it but...they are ALREADY in jail so now what? Doesn’t make sense to me. There needs to be change and big change at that. I pray for this young man and his father who thought he might just be teaching this boy a lesson. What a heartbreak it must be for him now. As for the ones responsible...they too will meet their maker one day and will have to go to yet ANOTHER jail and this one will be quite warm.