Is This a Shameful Thing?

S simmons was particularly fond of a punishment called the bat, which was nothing more than a greased leather strap between 18 inches and three feet long by three to five inches wide. This device would be used to whip the bare backs, butts and thighs of prisoners. But if the guards at eastham were feeling pecially sadistic, they would pour sand into the gaping lacerations left by the leather. Oh, and although the limit was supposed to be 20 lashes, guards never really bothered to keep count. They ese kind of kept going until they wanted to stop. Then once the prisoner finally passed out, usually after pisson and chitten himself, the rest of