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...outcry against caning stems largely from two recent cases involving brutality in the application of corporal punishment. In May, Headmaster William Michael Byrd of Britain's Cholderton College was sentenced to five years in prison for forcing schoolboys to lie naked across a bed, then beating them brutally with a stick. Last month Home Secretary Roy Jenkins ordered the closing of Court Lees in Surrey, a so-called "approved school," which handles potential juvenile delinquents, after its headmaster and an assistant were accused of caning boys "with excessive severity." Recently, the Royal Navy abolished its traditional caning of youthful...
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