Should the Army reinstate the use of Correctional Confinement Facilities?

If you were to get a Company Grade Article 15 for some minor offense, one of the punishment options is a week's confinement.&nbsp; Move up to a Field Grade ART 15 and you can get a month.<br><br>This USED to be served at the post CCF, or Correctional Confinement Facility, popularly called the Gulag.&nbsp; It wasn't jail, but it wasn't a nice place, either.&nbsp; Hard-ass NCOs would supervise work details, where an errant young trooper would serve his confinement by filling sandbags, or cutting firewood for the Sr. NCO's and Officer's quarters.&nbsp; The soldiers lived in WWII barracks which were surrounded by a fence but no guard.&nbsp; There was a CQ on duty to make sure nobody ran off, however.<br><br>The objective was to make the wrong-doer sweat a bit for their crimes.&nbsp; This did one of two things:&nbsp; the soldier who punched an NCO and got an ART-15 would either become reformed, or would become incorrigible and would generally wind up being Chaptered out of the service.&nbsp; More often than not, the soldiers who went to CCF would be reformed.<br><br>I started this thread as a companion to the School of the Soldier thread... by getting back to the basics, even with a purely volunteer Service, I feel the needs of the NCOs are best being met.&nbsp; <br><br>What do you think?&nbsp; Have you had any experience with the CCF?&nbsp; (I once took a truckload of empty sandbags to the CCF to have them filled... I was tapped to support the construction of ROTC summer camp fighting positions at Ft. Lewis.&nbsp; The NCOIC at the CCF pointed to a shade tree and told the three of us to relax in the lounge chairs under it.&nbsp; A few hours later our truck was neatly loaded with a thousand or so filled sandbags.&nbsp; Nice.)<br>