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Dear Readers: My article entitled The Constitutionality & Effectiveness of Judicial Corporal Punishment Compared to Massive Incarceration has been accepted for publication in The Criminal Law Bulletin , a respected law review.  It will not appear until 2013, so if you have any research, pro or con , please post it on this weblog.  We need to cut the American prison population in half, and judicial corporal punishment -- favored by all four presidents carved into Mt. Rushmore -- is one way to do it.  Thank you.                                                                John Dewar Gleissner

                 Why Was Judicial Corporal Punishment Abolished?    by John Dewar Gleissner, Esq.             Throughout history, the lowest ranks of society provided the majority of criminals.   Punishments often varied by social class or caste, officially or unofficially, and JCP most often was reserved for or primarily given to slaves and those with little status, money or property. [1]   Thus, JCP is generally abolished in advanced societies as a by-product of greater equality or democracy, because it is a relic of lower-class status that newly enfranchised citizens dislike.               JCP is unpleasant to administer, sometimes causes publicized deaths, [2] seems barbaric when incarceration holds out false promises of rehabilitation or humane treat...