20 Lashes or Prison?

"Prison spending is a problem.

Among other staggering (but unsurprising) facts to emerge from a recent Congressional Research Service Report (PDF), federal prison spending increased from about $330 million in 1980 to nearly $7 billion last year. Even with historically adjusted rates, that's nearly a 900 percent increase."*

Would you accept corporal punishment over prison time? Should you? Montana Republican Rep. Jerry O'Neil wants to offer corporal punishment- caning, or maybe whipping- in lieu of prison time. John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) and David Sirota (Salon.com contributor) discuss.

*Read more from Matt Stroud/ Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattstroud/2013/01/30/montana-rep-suggests-pain-a...