It's time to bring back the pillory

You have not explained why it would be beneficial at all other than claim it would save incarceration money. I believe in the grand scale of things, that is irrelevant and I will explain why.I. It Promotes Negativity within SocietyThe U.S. has the highest documented incarceration in the world. Where they have about 4% of the world's people, they have 25% of the world's prisoners[1]. The actual prison system, focuses on punishment. Solitary confinement within the U.S. is considered torture[1], and average length in jail was 55 months, about 4.5 years. The prison system is generally views as harsh and is only regulated by the prison official, and prisoners also cannot live comfortably. They are inelligible for welfare, loans, public housinng and food stamps increasing rates of suicide and homelessness. Overall the prison system is harsh. Now compare ever so liberal Norway, where sentences can only be a maximum of 21 years[2], they have the nicest prisons in the world, such as Bastoy, which offers fun activities, rehabilitation and is nice to prisons. Unlike European prisons with an average of a 70% reoffending rate, this prison has 16%[3]. Norway however has a murder rate of 0.69 people per 100,000, against the U.S' 4.7 per 100,000[4][5]. And to top it all off, Norway has one of the highest scores in the Happy Planet Index, at a fantastic 51.4[6], against America's 37.3, and Ethiopia has 39.2, and Libya has 40.8[7]. Do you see the correlation I am trying to make here? All your points about it working as a better deterrent has failed. Because mot just Norway, but Sweden, Finland, Canada all have higher HPI's and nicer prison systems. So this here has done two things.One, your argument that it is better deterrent has been proven false. Harsher prisons only lead to depression, suicide and increases the reoffending rate. As a deterrent? Well creating a society of respect and tolerance does better, but it leads me to my main point. A prison system is vital for a nation. The purposes are keeping society safe, punishing the offender, and rehabilitating the offender so he can be a more successful and useful person to society. Considering society is a sum of its people, keeping society safe and rehabilitation should be the most focused on. Punishment is important, but only up to an extent. It works in that the person knows not to reoffend and others know not to want to go to jail. But prison in itself is already a punishment. The stigma behind prisons, the mindset of prisoners, the lack of relatedness with society and the distancing with the world is punishment in itself. The lack of liberty, autonomy and choice is punishment. Throw in the fact that conditions are slightly worse and one effect in the real world, then you have a prison system which has all worlds. But what America does is just inhumane and clearly not working to create a safer place. In turn, the country itself will absorb some of these values. It will be a sadder place as shown by the HPI. It creates more reoffenders, depressed people and teaches people that bad actions just get punished in vain, and you'll suffer afterwards and effectively that the state doesn't care about those who mess up, this negativity spreads, considering today's prisoners are tomorrow's neighbours.So a system like yours is only sure to increase this. It will indoctrinate children that mistakes and crimes deserve hatred towards them. It teaches chidren that it is fine to abuse, hate, make fun of, racially, homophobically and sexually abuse people if they did it first. This goes against the point of creating a safe society, and rather, will do the opposite. I hope my point is clear, and am awaiting a rebuttal.Sources:[1] Video to the Right[2] http://en.wikipedia.org...[3] http://www.theguardian.com...[4] http://en.wikipedia.org...[5] http://en.wikipedia.org...[6] http://www.happyplanetindex.org...[7] http://www.happyplanetindex.org...;