Author's
Note: While I have “dabbled” in Judicial Corporal Punishment, I
consider myself more of a generalist. When I think about JCP, I divide
it into two categories:
Punishment awarded by a judge or magistrate
Punishment awarded due to a failure to follow
prison rules and regulations
I
have little interest in the first category with one notable exception. That would be the “Welcomes” and “Farewells”.
Actually, these kind of fall into the cracks between the two categories,
because... they are neither awarded by the court nor are they due to
misbehavior in prison. In some respects, these are similar to School
Corporal Punishment, where teacher(s) sentence(s) a delinquent to multiple
detentions! Since a student can only
attend a single detention, the additional detentions are erased with strokes of
the paddle, cane, strap etc... Note that the teacher(s) did NOT sentence the
miscreant(s) to corporal punishment; it came about strictly due to school rules
based upon the number of detentions.
So,
the second category above, where punishments are awarded in reformatories due
to misbehavior, I find most compelling.
Similarly, I like school paddling stories where punishment is “earned”
either by misbehavior or poor scholastic results.
This
brings us right to “Orange”.
“Orange” is my
attempt to weave these two ideas together into a single storyline. Don't know if I've pulled it off
successfully, but it has been fun!
In
PART 1 (click here) you'll see that punishment dispensed to delinquent prison
inmates is with a high school paddle! In
this part, you'll see some “refinements” of the AAP punishment program,
but nothing really radical. (This part is also considerably shorter, because
all the “scenario setup” - characters, AAP rules, and procedures, etc. - was
done in Part 1.)