THE CP ARCHIVE

News items about corporal punishment, classified by country, type and month.

THE ARCHIVE PAGES ARE COLOUR CODED: GREEN background for judicial CP, YELLOW for school CP, WHITE for other kinds of CP (Prison, Military, Domestic, Reformatory)

CP Archive - 2020

BOTSWANA New!

Botswana/Judicial - February 2020
Royal talk: Charles Letsholathebe
Retiring court judge talks about ordering canings for delinquent youths

NIGERIA New!

Nigeria/Judicial - February 2020
5 youths bag 6 months imprisonment for public disturbance
Plus a fine, plus 12 strokes of the cane each

SINGAPORE New!

Singapore/Judicial - February 2020
Jail, cane for man who abetted sexual assault on drunk teenage girl
23-year-old gets seven years in prison and six strokes of the cane

UNITED STATES New!

USA/Schools - January 2020
Bill would ban corporal punishment in public schools
Failed abolition attempt in Mississippi legislature

USA/Schools - February 2020
Putting away the paddle?
Further coverage of the Mississippi bill

Which local school districts allow corporal punishment?
An Alabama TV station investigates

In Kentucky Schools, Hundreds Of Students Are Struck By Staff Each Year, and It's Legal
13 KY districts are still wielding the paddle

Whitley BOE ends corporal punishment
No more paddling in one Kentucky district

Pampa school board approves corporal punishment
A Texas school district reinstates spanking

To view all the above items in a single date sequence for the whole year irrespective of country, with a separate link to each individual item, see News Chronology 2020

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