Australian Rattan
The file Corporal Punishment in three adjacent Commonwealth of Nations Countries in South East Asia provides an abundance of information on the judicial caning of adults to inflict Corporal Punishment (for Non-Murderous Crimes) as Justice For The Innocent Victim/s (Retribution), Punishment, Community Protection and Deterrent.
* the convicted offender from reoffending; and
* others similarly inclined from likewise offending.
The file Rattan snapshots Judicial caning in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei webpage under the following ten Headings:
1. INTRODUCTION
2. OFFENCES FOR WHICH CANING IS IMPOSED
3. THE IMMEDIATE PHYSICAL EFFECTS
4. DESCRIPTIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE BY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN CANED
5. MEDICAL TREATMENT
6. RECOVERY
7. AFTER EFFECTS: THE HEALING OF THE WOUNDS
8. SCARRING
9. HUMILIATION AND DETERRENCE
10. SOME DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA
The above first Heading 'Introduction' notes:
(to facilitate greater flexibility).""Caning in all three countries is administered across the bare seat. Contrary to popular myth, this is always done privately inside the prison. There has never been public JCP in these countries.
The prisoner is stripped naked and shackled by strong leather straps to a trestle or A-frame. In Singapore and Brunei he is held down in a bent-over position with his buttocks protruding. In Malaysia he stands upright at the A-frame to which he is tied.
He is then punished by a well-built warder wielding a four-foot long length of flexible rattan which has been soaked in water
In Singapore, for adult men it is 1.2 metres (4 feet) long, and 1.3cm (half an inch) in diameter (Prison Regulations 132(2)).
The Malaysian cane is very slightly smaller, at 1.09m long and 1.25cm thick."
With the intent to inflict frightening pain upon Suitable Male Criminals for Non-Murderous Crimes (as determined by a judge), but not cause life long scaring to the extent that may occur after canings in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, the Australian Rattan would be 1.05m long and 1.10cm thick made of cane grown in Queensland Australia.
Sharing the Corporal Punishment in an equal number of -
* canings applied with the Australian Rattan (to the bare buttocks); and
* lashes applied with the Cat 'O Nine tails (to the bare back),
for the Number Of Punishment Strokes In The Pilot Stage Of The Re-introduction Of Corporal Punishment in Australia, should reduce any long term Scarring to a small portion of the severe scarring described under Scarring that occurs in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei on a daily basis at three adjacent and closely linked members of the British Commonwealth in South-East Asia..