Stronger gangs are one result of imprisonment. Although, gangs are created outside prison, prisons create the environment where criminals get together and plan out their next crimes. Prison is a place where criminals enhance their skills from each other. According to Graeme Newman, prison creates crime. “It is very old idea that prisons are "schools for crime," and there is undoubtedly some truth in this belief. A number of preliminary studies have suggested that the homicide rate in prisons is substantially higher than that outside prison, even in some cases compared with the same geographical or urban areas from which the offenders come”(Handout). Corporal punishment would help prevent gang creation and planning in prisons.

The mere cost of building prisons and feeding and housing prisoners will put a lid on prison growth. The California Department of Corrections (CDC) operates all state prisons, oversees a variety of community correctional facilities, and supervises all parolees during their re-entry into society. Twenty years ago California had about 20,000 prisoners and 12 prisons. Today, we have 33 prisons and 161,000 under lock and key. It has cost Californians $5.3 billion to construct those 12 prisons in the last twenty years. The taxpayers also carry the burden of imprisonment. CDC reports the average yearly cost per inmate is $26,690 and per parolee is $2,769. More offenders and longer sentences led to an increase in the prison population. And the cost per prisoner will rise because prisoners get longer sentences and with longer sentences comes more inmates over 55 years of age. Jeffrie Murphy asserts, “Imprisonment is enormously expensive. This means that a double burden is placed on the innocent who must suffer the crime and, in addition, pay through taxation for the support of the offender and his family if they are forced into welfare” (213).

Corporal punishment for the first time offenders will keep them from committing crimes because of the fear of corporal punishment and jail time. Thomas J. Callanan asserts, “Punishment is necessary in order to deter the offender from committing similar acts, and to demonstrate to the community at large that crime has unpleasant consequences” (85). Move severe punishment

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