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is 36 and for a prisoner under 18 years 18 strokes. A birching of 12 strokes in the case of an adult and 6 strokes in the case of a juvenile is in my opinion too mild to be efficacious in many cases. Punishments B and C are covered by the existing rules 292 and 324.
Rule 290 this is the existing rule 280 with the omission of penal diet in alternate weeks in separate confinement this diet having been abolished in the new diet scales; the addition of forfeiture of remission of sentence as provided by existing rule 324, the increase of the number of strokes of the birch that may be awarded from 20-30 in the case of an adult and from 12-15 in the case of a juvenile, and the addition of the power to use the cat o' nine tails which is in use in the home prisons for prisoners over 18 years of age the maximum number of strokes which may be inflicted being 36 are new. It is very rarely that offences which have to be dealt with under the existing rule 280, on which this rule is based, occur, when they do occur they are generally committed by very refractory prisoners. To deal with some of these the only effective means is by a severer whipping than is possible under the existing rule. In my opinion therefore the power to award a whipping of