There seems to be plenty of blame to go around. The problem is the penal system is broken due to organizations like ACLU and liberal judges. Prisons should be self supporting from the labor of the inmates. Prisoners should be required to work at least half a day; learn a legal trade or work on their education. All sentences should be shortened by maybe 6 months with voluntary sterilization; rapist and men who sexually abuse children (this does not include teenagers who have sex with their younger girlfriends) should be castrated.

Caning could be considered as a punishment for some crimes. But I don't really have much of an opinion on the subject.