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  2. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days - Wikipedia

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    An accumulation of notes on old-time laws, punishments and penalties has evoked this volume. [1] As the title suggests, the subject of the chapters is various archaic punishments. Morse seems to make a distinction between stocks for the feet, in the Stocks chapter, and stocks for the head, described in the Pillory article- which itself clashes ...

  3. Public humiliation - Wikipedia

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    Pillories (right) were a common form of punishment.. Public humiliation exists in many forms. In general, a criminal sentenced to one of many forms of this punishment could expect themselves be placed (restrained) in a central, public, or open location so that their fellow citizens could easily witness the sentence and, in some cases, participate as a form of "mob justice".

  4. Human branding - Wikipedia

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    The law ran as follows; "the first offense [the convicted] shall stand in the pillory for one hour, and shall be publicly whipped on his, or her [bare] backs with thirty-nine lashes, well laid on, and at the same time shall have his or her ears cut off and nailed to the pillory, and for the second offense shall be whipped and pilloried in like ...

  5. The Troubled-Teen Industry Has Been A Disaster For Decades ...

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    The Troubled-Teen Industry Has Been A Disaster For Decades. It's Still Not Fixed.

  6. Pillory - Wikipedia

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    The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory. The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used during the medieval and renaissance periods for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. [1] The pillory is related to the stocks. [2]

  7. Meatpacking giants to pay $8 million for child labor violations

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    The Fair Labor Standards Act prohibits 14 and 15 year-old teens from working before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m. during the school year. All minors are prohibited from certain occupations and industries ...

  8. Behavior modification facility - Wikipedia

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    [12] [13] The goal was to redesign the behavioral architecture around delinquent teens to lessen chances of recidivism [14] and improve academics. [15] Harold Cohen and James Filipczak (1971) published a book hailing the successes of such programs in doubling learning rates and reducing recidivism. [ 16 ]

  9. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Nearly 40 percent of the nation’s juvenile delinquents are today committed to private facilities, according to the most recent federal data from 2011, up from about 33 percent twelve years earlier. Over the past two decades, more than 40,000 boys and girls in 16 states have gone through one of Slattery’s prisons, boot camps or detention ...