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HO45 /24535; This
extract from 1906 shows that there was criticism of flogging
as a punishment used in prisons at that time. It was eventually
abolished in 1948.
Note the description
of Colonel Isaacson in source 2: this is meant as a term of
approval, yet would hardly have been used 20 years earlier.
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