Summary Of Fogging By Peter Moskos

Peter Moskos brings up the fact that we should bring back flogging because of the fact that our prison system has gotten out of hand, and is focused more on being humane than getting a punishment across. Mosko says that people should have the right to choose between the flogging or time in prison. It is a very interesting topic to read about especially with how society sometimes works these days. Most people think that corporal of any kind is inhume, but at some extent so is the prison environment, and how things are done in there. No matter how you put it a person is being punished for the crimes that they choose to commit, it just comes down to whether or not people think that flogging is a barbaric or inhumane act. Having read this article Mosko makes a good point that maybe it should in fact be left up to the person that has to deal with the punishment, but there are defiantly criminals that have committed terrible thing that should not get that option.

People see flogging as such a terrible thing because it is so inhumane and that we shouldn’t allow it, but in all actuality, I don’t think that prisons are that much more humane. Prison are very hard and people both physiologically and physically. People fear prison and some would say that’s why people follow the laws but I think that flogging is also feared and people would still continue to follow the laws. In prison people get beat up, stabbed, and even worse things done to them, so when people look at it that way is flogging really that