http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/02/21/charles-dickens-on-solitary-confinement/ A First Things Blog Fri, 24 May 2013 03:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/02/21/charles-dickens-on-solitary-confinement/comment-page-1/#comment-91283 jason taylor Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:58:59 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=57953#comment-91283 I was thinking of 39 max New England style with a one lash, not multi-hundred with a nine-lash royal navy style Ianthis.

]]> http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/02/21/charles-dickens-on-solitary-confinement/comment-page-1/#comment-91240 ianthis Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:53:34 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=57953#comment-91240 @ Jason. People have died from flogging. BUT if some sort of reasonable corporal punishment were to be brought back I am sure many would jump at the chance to get their life back. I think the problem is that we as a culture are in favor of invisible sterile solutions over messy painful ones.

]]> http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/02/21/charles-dickens-on-solitary-confinement/comment-page-1/#comment-91171 jason taylor Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:58:29 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=57953#comment-91171 Honestly I rather think flogging should be brought back. No means of law enforcement has been found that is not egregiously cruel or if cruel be not the term for the unavoidable, egregiously unpleasant. Flogging does not take away large portions of a man’s life. Why not give people(at least those who are safe to allow on the street) a choice between flogging and prison. I know which I would choose.

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