Show flogging in england flogging is still allowed in english prisons as a punishment for mutiny or violence but recently published stalls tics make it doubtful whether even in inese extreme cases corporal punishment serves the purpose for ft aich it is intend ed it is shown that since the number of prison offenses tor which flog in g was allowed was reduced in 1898 the number ol 01 offenses against prison disc plire haa decreased from to per 1 pris boners while there has been an increase in the number ot those offenses tor which the cat Is still the penalty |