Does Corporal Punishment Work?

Corporal Punishment
After watching a Disney film called Holes, it made me think about corporal punishment! If you haven’t seen the film here’s a quick summary.
“When Stanley Yelnats IV (LaBeouf) is wrongfully convicted of stealing, he is sent to 'Camp Green Lake'. At this camp, the Warden (Weaver), and her two henchmen, Mr. Sir (Voight) and Dr. Pendanski (Nelson) command the campmates to dig holes after hole after hole. But for what reason? Stanley plans to find out.”
So while he is searching for the reason why he digs these 5 foot by 5 foot holes, they have to dig one every day. So basically its corporal punishment, but does it work?
Surely you will learn after firstly being embarrassed and secondly after going through lots of pain. So why don’t we have anything like this in England? They do in America with the chain gangs but why not in England? The closest we get here is community service, yes were men in their twenty’s have to build children’s playgrounds without getting paid. Or well there meant to, they really just sit around smoking and occasionally do an hour’s work or so before they have another fag break! So that not a deterrent, but corporal punishment must work!
So I personally believe that England needs to bring it back! We need more houses, so get them to build it? It makes sense and can also dramatically improve the countries problems?