Reintroducing Flogging
In Jeff Jacoby’s article “Bring Back Flogging” he informs us about the history of flogging and how it is not much more inhumane than our current system of incarceration. In this article, published in 1997 in the Boston Globe, he paints a picture on how cruel and inhumane our prisons really are, more so than “whipping or beating”, flogging. In my critique on Jeff Jacoby’s article “Bring Back Flogging”, I will show how he wants to re-introduce flogging by analyzing his thesis, explaining what makes his article a controversial subject, and explaining his purpose backed up by statistics and history. ... He implies throughout the article that flogging is a facile way of punishing criminals depending on the crime. ... He also implies that flogging can not be as wrong as imprisonment in this quote, “now we practice a more enlightened, more humane way of disciplining wrongdoers: We lock them up in cages.