Wylted 100th Debate: The United States should implement caning as a punishment for criminals.

My opponent has made my case a little easier and I appreciate that. It's obvious that the status quo isn't cutting it and now we can focus on what the better solution is. I. The resolution is a moral abomination As I've proven in the previous round, prisons create monsters and incarceration harms society more than it does the criminal. Now my opponent has taken to calling caning a slap on the wrist. I encourage the voters who have a strong stomach and are adults to watch the video in the following link. Warning Extremely Graphic: http://www.liveleak.com... The skin basically disintegrates as the cane hits the criminals behind. By the end of the video the guy has a butt with no skin attached where the cane hit it. Clearly it's a very painful experience. When you add on to the amount of humiliation and lifelong scarring this causes, you can see that it acts as a pretty good deterrent. I didn't discuss what type of mechanism would be in place to determine the difference between somebody who is likely a repeat offender and who isn't. The system I offer is pretty simple. It will be based off of statistics. According to the United States Department of Justice; " Released prisoners with the highest rearrest rates were robbers (70.2%), burglars (74.0%), larcenists (74.6%), motor vehicle thieves (78.8%), those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4%), and those in prison for possessing, using, or selling illegal weapons (70.2%)."[1] I also think it's a good ideal to keep the human element in these things so the statistics should serve as a guideline for judges to consider, but they should also look at previous arrest record and the facts surrounding each case. II. The death penalty There's no reason to think that the death penalty will be used more often against murderers, should caning be implemented as a punishment. Just like a jury can take the death penalty off the table, they should certainly be able to take caning off the table. I think jurors might have to be educated a bit on the benefits of caning and when it might be acceptable to hand it out, but this system can work and be a major improvement on the status quo. Many murderers stay in jail for years waiting for a trial. In the United States we have a right to a quick and speedy trial but many times it's waived. If you look at my citation for recidivism rates you can see that murder has one of the lowest percentages. Actually implementing caning can insure many more people get justice. Florida took Casey Anthony to trial and we knew she had something to do with the death of her kid. There wasn't enough evidence to convict her but had caning been on the table, the jury may have been able to find her guilty in good conscience. Caylee Anthony may have been able to get justice. Unfortunately America doesn't have caning in place so that little girl received no justice at all. What about George Zimmerman? This is another case where justice wasn't served, when it might have been if caning had been on the table. We don't know exactly what happened that night, but even if Zimmerman were innocent of murder the jury was still aware his actions were irresponsible and needed punishment. They could have found Zimmerman guilty and instead of walking out of that court free from any punishment, he could be walking out with the skin missing from his behind. Let's get more justice in these fuzzy cases. Let's make caning a thing in America. III. Counterplan: Legalize drugs and reform prison I agree with con here, let's legalize drugs, but let's also beat the hell out of Casey Anthony and George Zimmerman with a stick. Me and my opponent share a lot of the same beliefs about the prison system and it's problems. Let's revisit a quote Thett shared from Rothbard; "What happens nowadays is the following absurdity: A steals $15,000 from B. The government tracks down, tries, and convicts A, all at the expense of B, as one of the numerous taxpayers victimized in this process. Then, the government, instead of forcing A to repay B or to work at forced labor until that debt is paid, forces B, the victim, to pay taxes to support the criminal in prison for ten or twenty years' time. Where in the world is the justice here?" Me and my opponent see the same problem. Let's examine the different approaches. I say we should beat the hell out of them with a stick so they can get back out there and into the workforce to pay their debts. He says; "The prison system should be reformed to force inmates to work until their debt to their victims is repaid" Con we live in a free society and what you're advocating is slave labor. This is a moral abomination. You want to talk about the image beating a black man brings to mind, what about the images that enslaving a black man bring to mind? My opponent might call this hyperbole, but it isn't. ""Pay scale for federal prisoners who work outside of UNICOR in prison maintenance, in dollars per hour: $0.12-$0.40 "Minimum wage in Haiti in dollars per hour: $0.30 "Percent of federal prisoner-workers who work for UNICOR rather than in prison maintenance: 25% "Minimum UNICOR wage, in dollars per hour: $0.23 "Maximum UNICOR wage, in dollars per hour: $1.15"[2] That's the numbers you can continue to expect should my opponent's alternative to caning see the light of day. My opponent does bring up Norway's prison system, but it actually conflicts with something he said in his first premise. If I'm being too nice by beating some murderers with a stick than he is being too nice by putting them in a Norwegian type prison. If anyone takes a look at my opponent's source they'll see that Norwegian prisons look like a vacation resort.[3] The first picture you see is of an inmate sunbathing in a lounge chair on a deck. I tried to find out the cost of using this type of prison and if it would be a reasonable thing to do in America. Halden prison in Norway cost them 252 million dollars to build and only houses a few hundred prisoners.[4] This type of prison reform in America wouldn't work. It's too expensive, too soft and not a deterrent to crime. sources [1] http://www.bjs.gov... [2] (numbers pulled from article with good citations) http://www.prisonpolicy.org... [3] http://www.theguardian.com... [4] http://www.thefastertimes.com...