Mass incarceration will not be ended by prisoner protests, celebrated cases, communist and socialist ideas or people perceived as soft on crime. The very term "mass incarceration" carries a class consciousness that the left wing loves -- but in reality it must be dealt with one sentence at a time. We have to change the sentences, not simply adjust the amount of time of incarceration. There is entirely too much complaining about the situation and not enough practical ideas.  Some people are merely part of the complaint industry and have other agendas.

The one practical idea that will can cut the American prison population in half is judicial corporal punishment, an effective punishment for non-violent drug and other offenses. It has never been held unconstitutional and is not abolished for ineffectiveness. Traditional judicial corporal punishment, in public and witnessed by the sentencing judge, actually works, and does not have the same downsides as prison time. And get this: the prisoners I speak to would prefer it! All 4 presidents carved into Mt. Rushmore favored it as legal punishment for citizens of all races.   

 In the Holy BIBLE, it says: If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and have him flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime deserves, but he must not give him more than forty lashes. If he is flogged more than that, your brother will be degraded in your eyes.  DEUTERONOMY 25:2-3. The Bible requires corporal punishment be administered in front of the judge, which is a wise requirement to discourage abusive use outside judicial scrutiny. Jesus made a whip and used it to drive people and cattle: 
So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. JOHN 2:15.
 
The Koran also condones flogging for certain offenses. Judaism, Christianity and Islam agree on this basic idea. Time has a way of confirming many truths. We may compare flogging to the mission Jesus quoted from scripture:

The Spirit of the Lord is on me . . . He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners . . .   LUKE 4:18. 

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