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Tag: In Defense of Flogging
Maybe it’s not such a crazy idea…
Here’s me defending flogging for my favorite TV news show, the NewsHour. It’s very interesting that the option of flogging over prison currently registers over 70% support in their online poll. This mirrors the earlier newser survey in which 63% percent thought is was “brilliant” and another 13% found it “intriguing” (20% clicked in one of the negative categories).
“Outraging the Modesty”
From the Singapore Straits Times: A Briton on a visit here was charged on Friday with outraging the modesty of a 30-year-old woman in a Clarke Quay club. Austin Charles Arnold Cowburn, 34, is alleged to have grabbed her buttock in the China One pub at 4am on April 3 2011. AOL Travel adds: The maximum sentence for the crime…
“Justice? Vengeance? You Need Both”
Thoughtful piece by Thane Rosenbaum in today’s New York Times: It’s difficult to have honest conversations about revenge. Seeing someone receive his just deserts often feels righteous and richly deserved, and yet society regards vengeance as primitive and barbaric. Governments warn citizens not to take justice into their own hands, insisting that the state alone has the duty and right…
The California Prisoner Hunger Strike…
…enters it’s second week. From the S.F. Weekly: Activists and inmates say the strike is meant to call attention to inhumane conditions in Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit (SHU), where dangerous prisoners are lodged in small, windowless cells, often without access to other people or open space for extended periods. Critics of the SHU say that solitary confinement is equivalent…
Flogging in CT
Gregory Hladky of the Hartford Advocate writes one of the better pieces on In Defense of Flogging (not that I like to pick favorites, because like the children I don’t have, I love them all). But this one ismore interesting than many.
“A bargain like that is a bargain for me!”
The good people at Basic Books have been kind (or clever) enough to put the first part of In Defense of Floggingup on the book’s website… For free! “Free,” you ask, “why would they do that?” Duh… So you love the start, get the cliffhanging end, and buy the book! Download the pdf file. Link to it. Email it to…
Today on CNN
Me. At 2:45pm Eastern Time. Stream Team with Fredricka Whitfield. A mega 5-minute segment.
Really?
Generally I support the goals of prison reformers. Prisons are not supposed to be torture chambers that destroy the lives of all who enter. So I support efforts to make them better. But in my book I compare that to asking for comfier seats on the train to Auschwitz. It’s kind of missing the big picture. But this guy seems…
Retribution on Bernie Madoff
The New York Timeshas an article about the absurd sentence (150 years) Madoff received. Why is absurd? Not because he doesn’t deserve it. It’s absurd because Madoff was then 71 years old! Seems to me a good defense of flogging: Judge Chin’s recollections resurrect all the anger, shock and confusion that surrounded Mr. Madoff’s crimes, and provide a rare peek…