Uh... no? That's US Court stuff that has been invoked all the way up to the Supreme Court and is treated as the current standard.
I tend to agree on corporal punishments, there would be a lot of benefit to both the criminal and society. Flogging is a bit extreme, for cases like shoplifting I would nominate birching instead, which will leave no more than welts. Flogging should be reserved for more serious crimes than that.
Benefits from this would include:
Less disruption of the criminal's life, a year in prison means they've lost their home, their job, all their worldly possessions, and many of their friends and contacts are gone leaving them with little recourse to legally move again. A birching will have a shoplifter back home and able to go back to their job and pay rent, albeit probably with a limp, the next day.
Less chance for criminals to teach each other. Prisoners invariable talk and share tips and many criminals leave the prison system more hardened than they went in.
Less expensive on society by far than room and board for a year paid to expensive private prisons that have been frequently bribing judges to send more innocents to prison in order to make more money at the taxpayer's expense.
I would reserve imprisonment for actual dangerous criminals who are unsafe to have on the streets, where they genuinely need to be separated from society.