Get Tough & Smart - How to Start Winning the War on Drug Addiction

Why don't we put the power of the internet to work in criminal justice?  This can best be accomplished with the re-institution of public judicial corporal punishment.  Video clips of punishment will powerfully discourage gang activity, juvenile delinquency and crime generally.  Judicial corporal punishment is painful, yes, but one of its most powerful effects is public shaming.  Publication on the internet would exponentially increase the effects of public punishment.  In the old days, the benefit of example was given to those who witnessed the punishment.  Today, that benefit would reach the whole world.  Publication on the internet would also be another check & balance on the abuse of punishment, abuse that now remains hidden behind prison walls. 

We can cut the American prison population in half while reducing crime rates.  This should be the goal.  It will not be easy, politically correct or through the common complaints we hear against incarceration.  It will require proven tough love.  At this web-site, you can find out how to bring the numbers down.  As far as I know, I am the only one to call for a halving of the prison population -- and it's about time!