Prison Caning
Under the Prisons Act, prison superintendents may impose corporal punishment not exceeding 12 strokes of the cane for aggravated prison offences. This punishment can be imposed after due inquiry at a "mini-court" inside the prison, during which the prisoner is given an opportunity to hear the charge and evidence against him and to present his defence. The Prisons Director must approve the punishment before it can be carried out. It is administered in the same manner as for judicial caning.
Inmates of Drug Rehabilitation Centres may be caned in the same way.
In 2008 the procedure was revised to introduce a review of each prison caning sentence by an independent external panel.
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