Libertariańska polityka penitencjarna musi odrzucić koncept więzienia, którego boją się przede wszystkim normalni ludzie mający rodzinę i dzieci. Podczas gdy dla groźnych przestępców więzienie jest często drugim domem, osoby które po prostu na chwilę zbłądziły z właściwej drogi życia są w więzieniu gnojone i zachęcane by stać się jeszcze gorszymi.
Ład społeczny oparty na własności prywatnej powinien być oparty na karach publicznej chłosty, wygnania i śmierci (w przypadku morderstw), a od przestępców powinno się wymagać w pierwszej kolejności odszkodowania wobec ofiary, nie państwa.

Reader. You have just been convicted of grand theft auto (the crime, not the game). You’re innocent, but the prosecutor was very good at her job and you’ve used up all your appeals and you’re just going to have to accept the punishment. The judge gives you two options:

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1. Five years in prison
   

2. Fifty strokes of the lash
   

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Like everyone else except a few very interesting people who help provide erotic fantasies for the rest of us, I don’t like being whipped. But I would choose (2) in a fraction of a heartbeat.

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And aside from being better for me, it would be better for society as well. We know that people who spend time in prison are both more likely to stay criminals in the future and better at being criminals. And each year in jail costs the State $50,000; more than it would cost to give a kid a year’s free tuition at Harvard. Cutting the prison system in half would free up approximately enough money to give free college tuition to all students at the best school they can get into.

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But of course we don’t do that. We stick with the prisons and the rape and the kids who go work at McDonalds because they can’t afford college. Why? Progressives!

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If we were to try to replace prison with some kind of corporal punishment, progressives would freak out and say we were cruel and inhumane. Since the prison population is disproportionately minority, they would probably get to use their favorite word-beginning-with-“R”, and allusions would be made to plantation owners who used to whip slaves. In fact, progressives would come up with some reason to oppose even giving criminals the option of corporal punishment (an option most would certainly take) and any politician insufficiently progressive to even recommend it would no doubt be in for some public flagellation himself, albeit of a less literal kind.

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