Putting people in prison for 15 or 20 years, at $35,000 or so a year is just plain insane. Doing these things to them for victimless crimes is even MORE insane. America incarcerates a higher precentage of its population than any other country in history? Why? Apparently to increase the size, power, and influence of prison guards’ unions.
Here’s an alternative. A good one, IMO, but only for real criminals. For those of you who don’t understand, a "real criminal" is someone who actually does something that harms someone else, personally, directly, and "in reality." Otherwise no one should be tortured with prison OR lashing. The rest? The real criminals? Let’em have it!