A Prison Caning: A Tale of Male Punishment

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UK: Williamson, Phil, headmaster of Christian school, fighting court case to overturn ban on corporal punishment, 2001 United States, huge joke paddle wielded by principal of a high school in Ohio for posed picture, 1970 United Kingdom, a much clearer picture of the Walsall secondary tawse, removed from a school in 1988

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SikHanyiso, Princess, 17, daughter of Swazi king, whipped by palace official, pictured in traditional garb for annual ceremonial dance of "maidens", Swaziland, 2005 United Kingdom: computer-generated impression of flogging of junior seaman over the bare breech on board ship, c.1820 (view from 3 different angles) United States: college students pretending to paddle a fellow-student with huge planks, Texas, early 20th centuryUnited States: juvenile delinquent being spanked by police on instructions of Mayor, New Jersey, 1920 Bahamas: Deveux, Kenneth, teacher who allegedly gave 12-year-old schoolboy 70 strokes of the cane, 1999 USA: Davis, Rhonda, 16, Oklahoma cheerleader, was to have been spanked by principal for tardiness but her parents got her out of it, 1977

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Germany: posed photograph of student bending over for pretend caning demonstration in a school museum, c. 2000 This particular school, where class caning is the usual kind (rather than office caning or public caning), is known to cane also for skipping lessons and skipping detention. Five clips from Texas, four of them covering a controversy about male administrators spanking girls, the other from a district where paddling is alive and well and everybody is happy. United States: TV news report (April 2016) from a school district in Georgia where the rod is not spared.Thomas, Louis, 12, paddled at US blind school, pictured at hearing with superintendent who defended the punishment, 1954 We then see prisoners waiting to be caned and being examined by the doctor. The caning operative is shown warming up with a few practice strokes. South Korea: Eleven real-life clips of schoolboys receiving discipline across the seat of their trousers.