She looks more like Mrs. Featherbottom.

Doesn't like being called names either:

I wouldv'e called her the Ugly Bandit.

Most people don't have a realistic fear of prison because deep down they can't imagine going to prison and so don't believe they'll really go there. That's one of the major reasons it's often not an effective deterrent. (Recidivist convicts often believe they're bound to wind up in prison again, so it's still not a deterrent. Not because prison can't be a deterrent, but because we're doing it wrong.)

On the other hand, people are familiar with public humiliation and are generally terrified of it. If we gave all bank robbers embarrassing nicknames and trumpeted them on TV, it would effect a greater reduction of bank robberies than increasing prison sentences for it.

Arrested plenty, never convicted.

If you have to be punished before the punishment is sufficient deterrent, then there's still a fundamental problem with the system.

Besides, there's no accounting for the proportion of non-recidivists who would not have committed another crime if they'd simply been let off with a scary warning or lesser punishment. A hell of a lot of people who wind up in jail made a single dumb mistake that they'd take back in a heartbeat anyway if they could.

Anyway, I realize it's not a proper sample, but I've known too many people who went to jail and came out not merely undeterred but determined to get revenge on society for sending them to jail. As far as I know, none of them quite followed through, but that was 75% laziness, not fear of going back.

I'm not saying prison isn't scary. I'm saying it's not the right kind of scary. There are plenty of kids out there who see jail as a badge of credibility. No one sees public humiliation as a badge of credibility. Cruel, unusual -- within reason, whatever. Getting raped in the shower is pretty cruel.