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Strapping (punishment)

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when used on adult convicts – either for discipline within the prison system, or as an original judicial corporal punishment, often combined with prison time, imposed by a court but carried out by prison staff. This has been the case notably in the US (mainly the South, e.g. Arkansas at least
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Because of the forceful impact a disciplinary strap makes, which can easily knock the recipient out of balance and make him or her fall over (reported by strapped punishees who were ordered to receive it while grabbing their ankles), the victim is usually supported in a bending or lying position,
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The strap has also been used on minors in reformatories and in schools. The latter was particularly prevalent in Canada, applied to the student's hand, until the practice was abolished in 2004, but there, in modern times at least, it was generally made of canvas/rubber rather than leather.
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at the time. Sheriff J. R. Jones had "sold" the man to the head of the work-gang for a twenty-five dollar fee. Cavalier County (North Dakota) States Attorney Gudmunder Grimson and
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is a forked version with two or more tails, colloquially known as the belt, and was the standard implement of punishment in state schools until it was banned in 1987.
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inflicted on the trousers, sometimes bare bottom but also used on the back) and Canada (until 1972, delivered to the offender's bare buttocks).
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memorialized the case. The whipping-boss, Walter Higginbotham, was charged with Tabert's murder but acquitted. Florida's then governor
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outlawed the use of flogging in the wake of public outrage over the death, and brought an end to the
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Probably because of the stiffness, the word "strap" is sometimes used interchangeably with a leather
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An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
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The historical strap, usually made for institutional use, is also known as a
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reporter Samuel "Duff" McCoy brought the case to national attention. The
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Martin Tabert's Brutal Death Leads to End of Convict Lease System.
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My six convicts: a psychologist's three years in Fort Leavenworth
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Index

Strapping
a series
Corporal punishment

Domestic
Judicial
School
Amputation
Belting
Birching
Branding
Caning
Cat o' nine tails
Flagellation
Foot whipping
Knout
Paddle
Scourge
Sjambok
Slippering
Spanking
Strapping
Switch
Tawse
Riding crop
Whip
Afghanistan
Brunei
Iran
Malaysia

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