Okay, how would you implement the severe punishment right, MissNanci? How does bullwhipping a prisoner in front of other prisoners teach them to not commit crimes? If anything else, it'd make them hate and resent the law even more than they did. And how do they resist the law? Oh yeah, they commit more crimes when they get out.

How would you do it, if you were in charge of a prison facility, and were given free reign to do what you wished? How would you do it so that your prisoners would learn from their mistakes?