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Re: Government and Repression
>In most of the world, indiscipline and bad behavior in the
>prison will get you beaten, unofficially in Australia, officially
>in Japan. (Yes, *corporal punishment*, gasp, oh the horror).
Umm, minor point, but just for my personal clarification, are you
sure there's corporal punishment in Japan? I seem to remember
that during this whole Singapore thing, Japan was often raised
as a model of a society with Singaporean crime rates and no
corporal punishment.
Rk
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