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Singapore uses public caning. This stuff seems common in city-states.

• DocTomoe 4y ago
  Small area means less space to put large prisons on it - which means punishment moves to more corporeal and less incarceration. Especially with "morality" laws, where there is no real reason to protect society from a "criminal", that may be a good way to handle things. I'd guess many folks sitting in prison in the US for smoking weed would much rather have a few whips with a cane than losing years and years doing nothing productive.
  • perfunctory 4y ago
    > Small area means less space to put large prisons on it - which means punishment moves to more corporeal and less incarceration Did you just make it up?
  • ngc248 4y ago
    >>> would much rather have a few whips with a cane than losing years and years doing nothing productive. I know people who have been caned (for alochol consumption) in the mid-east who still have problems walking today, so no that cannot be an alternative.
    • no-reply 4y ago
      Although it is going to hurt, you probably won't forget your lashes till your death. Actually works.
• ValentineC 4y ago
  > Singapore uses public caning. Singaporean here. I hope you're referring to public caning in schools [1][2], because canings in prisons [3] are, as far as I know, not open to the public. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore#School_caning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore#School_can... [2] https://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20091012-173138.html https://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20091012... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore#Prison_caning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore#Prison_can...