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  2. Cruel and All-Too-Usual - The Huffington Post

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    On April 14, as the video below shows, he was forcibly put on suicide watch for “making threats of self harm.” He refused to submit to a strip search—he told me that taking his clothes off in front of the guards gives him flashbacks to his sexual assaults—and was gassed with chemical spray.

  3. Cruel and unusual punishment - Wikipedia

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    Cruel and unusual punishment is a phrase in common law describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation it inflicts on the person subjected to the sanction. The precise definition varies by jurisdiction, but typically includes punishments that are arbitrary, unnecessary, or overly severe compared ...

  4. Caning - Wikipedia

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    Caning was a common form of judicial punishment and official school discipline in many parts of the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Corporal punishment (with a cane or any other implement) has now been outlawed in much, but not all, of Europe. [2]

  5. Flagellation - Wikipedia

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    Flagellation was so common in England as punishment that caning (and spanking and whipping) are called "the English vice". [ 33 ] Flogging was a common disciplinary measure in the Royal Navy that became associated with a seaman's manly disregard for pain. [ 34 ]

  6. Dad delivers epic, embarrassing punishment to daughter ... - AOL

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    Dad Delivers Epicly Embarrassing Punishment To Daughter Caught Dating Older Lots of parents have rules about when their kids can start dating and how those same kids are allowed to use or not use ...

  7. Public humiliation - Wikipedia

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    Public humiliation or public shaming is a form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a public place. It was regularly used as a form of judicially sanctioned punishment in previous centuries, and is still practiced by different means (e.g. schools) in the modern era.

  8. Caning in Singapore - Wikipedia

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    Caning is a widely used form of corporal punishment in Singapore.It can be divided into several contexts: judicial, prison, reformatory, military, school and domestic. These practices of caning as punishment were introduced during the period of British colonial rule in Singapo

  9. Foot whipping - Wikipedia

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    The Bastinado was a common punishment during Mexico's Porfirian era, when the Rurales secret police would commonly use bull penises for the task. [10] In the United States, corporal punishment through foot whipping was reported from juvenile penal institutions until 1969, as for example in Massachusetts. [6]