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This essay is written by a columnist, in order to discuss the situation of the prison system and persuade audiences to consider bring back flogging in order to replace jail. Jacoby is serious about his point of view, which may not be unbreakable nor convincing, but the fact that such a person wrote about replacing a system is worth to think over. Cages may work for animals and pets, but how do those iron bars make a criminal become a good person again? What can we do about it if a criminal continue his crime behavior in jail without supervision? Send him to another jail? Jacoby mentioned flogging, but if a guy doesn’t care about death nor be in jail forever, why would they be afraid of a whip? An animal can finish a math problem if the

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