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Typically caning and/or time wearing a cangue, with death sentences or penal servitude for very serious cases.

• pi-e-sigma 3y ago
  That's actually used to be the norm in Europe, too. Various forms of corporal punishment for smaller offences and death for major ones. Prisons where people would be kept for years at a time are a fairly recent development of XIX century
  • Synaesthesia 3y ago
    African cultures didn’t have prisons and neither did native North Americans.
    • google234123 3y ago
      Yeah, they just either killed or tortured you (or a family member in retribution) or booted you from the tribe- sounds like a death sentence in a lot of cases to me …