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

> 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_can...

[2] https://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20091012...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore#Prison_can...

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.

> 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?

>>> 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.

Although it is going to hurt, you probably won't forget your lashes till your death. Actually works.

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