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BEAUTIFUL GIRL PUBLICLY WHIPPED!
Atkociods Proceedings under a New Law which has lately
COME INTO FORCE. The POOR GlRL RECEIVED TEN BRUTAL
Lashes on her Bare Back.
" It is enough to make one's blood run cold ! this vivid and
realistic picture of the scene in the market-place of Manassar, in
the State of Virginia. The startling story has been sent to us
by our New York correspondent, who also forwarded a snap-shot
of the incident. The photographic picture is therefore conclusive
evidence of the actuality of the affair; and where it not before
us we should certainly doubt the truth of the story. It seems
that the Virginia State Legislature having recently passed a law
enacting that any person convicted of thieving may be sentenced
to receive ten lashes, the first punishment unter the new Act
was inflicted on Tuesday fortnight. The prisoner was a girl of
eighteen, named Mary Ball, and she was publicly whipped at
Manassar. She was tied to a post in the public square, stripped
naked above the waist, and lashed on her bare back in the
presence of a great crowd of spectators.
 
ees001 said:

BEAUTIFUL GIRL PUBLICLY WHIPPED!
Atkociods Proceedings under a New Law which has lately
COME INTO FORCE. The POOR GlRL RECEIVED TEN BRUTAL
Lashes on her Bare Back.
" It is enough to make one's blood run cold ! this vivid and
realistic picture of the scene in the market-place of Manassar, in
the State of Virginia. The startling story has been sent to us
by our New York correspondent, who also forwarded a snap-shot
of the incident. The photographic picture is therefore conclusive
evidence of the actuality of the affair; and where it not before
us we should certainly doubt the truth of the story. It seems
that the Virginia State Legislature having recently passed a law
enacting that any person convicted of thieving may be sentenced
to receive ten lashes, the first punishment unter the new Act
was inflicted on Tuesday fortnight. The prisoner was a girl of
eighteen, named Mary Ball, and she was publicly whipped at
Manassar. She was tied to a post in the public square, stripped
naked above the waist, and lashed on her bare back in the
presence of a great crowd of spectators.
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Nice quote, and thanks for the link -- I think we have discussed this book before. Unfortunately, the book does not include the photograph mentioned in the text, and the only search results for "Mary Ball" and "Manassar" are to this book, and therefore hard to verify. If "Manassar" is a misprint for "Manassas" it gets worse as there are too many rather than too few hits. Has anybody seen the photo in question?
 
nsur1 said:
Nice quote, and thanks for the link -- I think we have discussed this book before. Unfortunately, the book does not include the photograph mentioned in the text, and the only search results for "Mary Ball" and "Manassar" are to this book, and therefore hard to verify. If "Manassar" is a misprint for "Manassas" it gets worse as there are too many rather than too few hits. Has anybody seen the photo in question?
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I found this fragment on page xviii.
 
elephas said:
I found this fragment on page xviii.
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We may be talking at cross purposes. I did find the quote within the book -- as you say, it is on page xviii and verbatim as posted by @ees001 -- but the text in the book refers to a photograph which itself is not reproduced in the book. Clearly, the photo would be of special interest as direct evidence that the story is true (and in its own right).
 
nsur1 said:
We may be talking at cross purposes. I did find the quote within the book -- as you say, it is on page xviii and verbatim as posted by @ees001 -- but the text in the book refers to a photograph which itself is not reproduced in the book. Clearly, the photo would be of special interest as direct evidence that the story is true (and in its own right).
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I am pretty sure the story is not true. It's dated 1900 and there was no judicial corporal punishment in Virginia anywhere near that time and certainly not of women nor in public.
 
It's not very surprising the photo isn't reproduced, the book was published in 1901 I think the technology for doing that was still in its infancy.
It's something of a bibliographic treasure - a 2nd edition of 500 copies, privately printed for subscribers - by the very historic printing house of G J Thieme in Nijmegen, founded 1792, which later held the Dutch Royal Warrant (possibly the King was one of the subscribers!)

I see it also quotes from The Times, Sep 20th 1900, reporting a proposal to revive a law dating from the time of Charles II against 'innocent osculatory exercise' ( =:loveyou: ) in Bridgeport Connecticut - women engaging in such exercise to get 30 lashes on bare back, men 40.

A drawing, by one Adolf Willette, is on offer on several stock images sites, e.g. https://www.alamy.com/public-floggi...-because-of-a-relationship-image63085711.html But it's evidently an imaginary reconstruction, probably based on that text. And it's vague about the location of Manassa - it might be the one in Colorado, muddled with Manssas Va?
 
Returning to "CURIOUS CASES OF Flagellation in France", below is an excerpt for elephas, my good friend.

Now we've had several discussions about Nell and it appears our conclusions are almost identical to those of publisher who first translated this work into English. We believe Nell is an exceptional work and you can see below that in 1901 the publisher had a similar view.


SHALL FEMALE PRISONERS BE WHIPPED?

An American journalist of great talent wrote the following preface for “Nell in Bridewell” (Paris, 1899), but owing to the delay of his MS. we were unable to utilize it in time in the right place, a preface having been meanwhile written by ourselves. The question of the fustigation of female culprits is so ably dealt with that we offer this essay, as a fruitful field of suggestion to some budding legislator anxious to win fame and do good.

“Lenchen im Zuchthause” is on the whole the most meritorious work of fiction extant, having flagellation as its theme. The only one which can be said to vie with it is the recent production, the “Memoirs of Dolly Morton”.

But while “Dolly” is equally interesting as a story or as a series of pictures, while it is equally veracious in adherence to historical detail and human probability; it falls short of the notable German work in several important characteristics. “Lenchen” excels in literary style, surpasses it in psychological analysis and outclasses it in the effort to suggest the truth of a great sociological problem. As it seems to us, “Lenchen” to thinking minds very satisfactorily suggests a conclusion on the much involved question of corporal punishment for women, but strangely enough, this conclusion is the direct opposite of what the heroine continually argues and what the author indubitably intended.

In a word, we regard “Lenchen im Zuchthause” as an irresistible argument in favor of whipping, administered in nursery fashion, but with adult severity, as the best punishment for female offenders.

“Lenchen im Zuchthause” is the work of Wilhelm Reinhard, concerning whom all the available personal information seems to be that he died in 1858. The book is thus described by the noted bibliographer Hugo Hayn in his “Bibliotheca Germanorum Erotica,” (Leipzig 1885):

“Vergriffen und hochst selten. Schildert romanartig den Magellantismus im Zuchthause ira Briefen an eine freundin, und hebt hauptsachtlich das Unmoralische einer offentlichen Entblossung und Zuchtigung hervor.”


This much sought and extremely rare edition has become since 1885 almost impossible to procure. There seems to be strong and growing interest in whipping in Germany, and 15 marks, Bielefeld's price in 1880, (Cat. 151, No. 1276), would now be laughed at by any bookseller lucky enough to secure the prize. We know of a recent occasion upon which 60 marks were scornfully refused.

The amateurs of the rod, however, are not on this account obliged to remain unedified by this remarkable contribution to flagellant lore. In 1872, a second edition, slightly modified so as to avoid modern censorship, was given to the press and many others have followed from the same plates. The work is now as easily obtainable as any work of German literature. So far as we are aware, however, the present is the first translation which has been made of it, a surprising circumstance when the fascinations of the subject and the merits of the treatment are considered.


Hope you find this interesting...
Tired
 
I have found the work "CURIOUS CASES OF Flagellation in France" just a fascinating read. Below is another excerpt concerning "Nell in Bridewell" from the section titled:

SHALL FEMALE PRISONERS BE WHIPPED?

Reinhard's (author of Nell) purpose was to show that whipping was an improper and an unfit punishment for women.

Is this truly so? We think not. It would seem that the entire discussion resolves itself into this ultimate question: Is it effectual?

There can be no doubt as to the answer. It is the most effectual of all punishments for women. It is the only one they really fear.

Reinhard shows this plainly. His women, bad and good, take the risks of imprisonment — even death in the case of Leonora — without any great hesitation. The fear of the rod dominates them. Not one of them, were the thing to do again, would dare do it knowing the fate that impended over her plump white flesh. Lenchen confesses this deterrent effect, and the truth of the mental processes through which she passes appeals to every student of human nature.

One word as to the stock objections to the use of the rod. They are three in number:

1. It is cruel.​
2. It is immodest.​
3. It is demoralizing.​

Let us consider them briefly, one by one. All punishments inflicted on women are, in a sense cruel.

They excite our sympathies more than do sufferings of men, whose hardy mental and physical constitutions fit them better for all the vicissitudes of life. But it is an indisputable fact that women must often be punished, severely punished indeed, and therefore the issue of cruelty becomes merely one of degree.

To us it seems that there is far less cruelty in a short sharp correction, administered in a way which makes lasting injury impossible, than in prolonged periods of bread and water, dark cells, handcuff and chain, stock or pillory, straight jacket, or any other of the devices a fanciful humanitarism has provided for modern prison government. The exhaustion which is the inevitable and intentional result of all these devices is, as we look at it, far more cruel, because far more injurious, than the application of twenty or even fifty smart smacks or swishes to the soft, fleshy protuberances which nature seems to have designed especially to be whipped.

Indeed this argument might logically be carried much further. There are many who hold—and are they not right — that for all minor offences committed by women, particularly by women of good repute, private corporal chastisement of the parental or scholastic type should be substituted for imprisonment, with its ruin to reputation and corrupting associations.

As for the immodesty of whipping, it is obviously fanciful. We certainly do not favor the administration of flogging by men. This, it must be confessed, is an unnecessary and disgraceful addition to the moral pain. But if women are to be the executioners, what is there in the exposure which is especially offensive to the proprieties.

When a woman is admitted to a prison, she undergoes a physical search, which sometimes is more intimate even than a vaginal examination. This latter, she never escapes. Then she is periodically subjected to similar inspection, both for hygienic reasons and to prevent her from possessing contraband articles. Does any one ever protest against the immodesty of these searches? Would it be possible to dispense with them? Further, the prisoners are forced to bathe in a complete state of nudity in each others' presence and in presence of the women keepers. Does any one see any immodesty in this?

But why go to prison to measure the limits of modesty or immodesty entre femmes. Go to a Turkish bath, or ask some lady who frequents one. Enquire as to her scrupulous female room-mates or intimates of any sort as about the revelation of their secret charms in the process of the toilet, or on other chance occasion. Let it be understood, we do not mean vicious, but average women. It is not true that the vast majority of them are vitally indifferent regarding total or partial nudity, so long as the masculine eye is absolutely excluded.

Of course, it is humiliating to a woman to be strapped on a bench, or over the edge of a table, or to a ladder or post, with her skirts raised above her waist and her drawers off or loose about her heels, all these conditions being arranged in order that she may expiate her sin by the smart of her skin. But her humiliation is part of the penalty, and the semi-sexual feeling, called modesty, has nothing or almost nothing to do with her feelings, a fact which we think is amply proven by the consideration that other women, compelled to behold her plight or choosing to do so, are in no way abashed or ashamed at the spectacle which she presents.

Finally, the theory that whipping is demoralizing we believe to have no basis in reason or common sense. Why should it be so? Or, rather, is it not far less so than any other punishment that a woman can undergo. Compare it with the ordeal of a public trial in court, before a crowd of curious and heartless spectators. Compare it with the misery of newspaper accounts of the offence, the trial, the penalty, the social status, the personal appearance of the unfortunate erring creature. Compare it with the police cell, the prison searching, the costume, the cutting of the hair, the rigid discipline, the servile labor. We venture to say that there is not one woman arrested out of ten thousand, who, had she the choice, would fail to choose the severest chastisement, coupled with the salvation of her good name and her self-respect, in preference to even a night of detention and an appearance in court, not to speak of the other subsequent sufferings. We hold that every respectable woman who comes under the ban of the law should have this option on her first offence, by signing a confession of guilt, to be kept in the secret police archives; she should forthwith be sentenced to a whipping of greater or less severity in proportion to her crime. This whipping should then be privately administered by women without any delay, and she should be suffered to go her way, her identity being for that time, at least, scrupulously veiled.

That Reinhard did not consider whipping demoralizing, is sufficiently plain. He subjects three females of good character to it, Lenchen herself, Leonora and the young girl Minnie. Not one of them is injured in moral tone by it. On the contrary, they are all elevated in their principles rather than depraved by their chastisement, a result not so evident as respects Lenchen's other prison experiences.

With these introductory remarks, we commend the narrative which follows to our readers. Sympathetically read, it will, we feel assured, give deep satisfaction. It is a valuable continuation of sociology and its kindred science: penology. Thus it appeals to the intellect. But the senses and the imagination are not ignored, and those who take an artistic or sensuous delight in well rounded, undulating female attractions, beautiful in the complicating tints of strawberries and cream, will find no small delight in the perusal of the pages.
 
Tiredny said:
I have found the work "CURIOUS CASES OF Flagellation in France" just a fascinating read. Below is another excerpt concerning "Nell in Bridewell" from the section titled:

SHALL FEMALE PRISONERS BE WHIPPED?

Reinhard's (author of Nell) purpose was to show that whipping was an improper and an unfit punishment for women.

Is this truly so? We think not. It would seem that the entire discussion resolves itself into this ultimate question: Is it effectual?

There can be no doubt as to the answer. It is the most effectual of all punishments for women. It is the only one they really fear.

Reinhard shows this plainly. His women, bad and good, take the risks of imprisonment — even death in the case of Leonora — without any great hesitation. The fear of the rod dominates them. Not one of them, were the thing to do again, would dare do it knowing the fate that impended over her plump white flesh. Lenchen confesses this deterrent effect, and the truth of the mental processes through which she passes appeals to every student of human nature.

One word as to the stock objections to the use of the rod. They are three in number:

1. It is cruel.​
2. It is immodest.​
3. It is demoralizing.​

Let us consider them briefly, one by one. All punishments inflicted on women are, in a sense cruel.

They excite our sympathies more than do sufferings of men, whose hardy mental and physical constitutions fit them better for all the vicissitudes of life. But it is an indisputable fact that women must often be punished, severely punished indeed, and therefore the issue of cruelty becomes merely one of degree.

To us it seems that there is far less cruelty in a short sharp correction, administered in a way which makes lasting injury impossible, than in prolonged periods of bread and water, dark cells, handcuff and chain, stock or pillory, straight jacket, or any other of the devices a fanciful humanitarism has provided for modern prison government. The exhaustion which is the inevitable and intentional result of all these devices is, as we look at it, far more cruel, because far more injurious, than the application of twenty or even fifty smart smacks or swishes to the soft, fleshy protuberances which nature seems to have designed especially to be whipped.

Indeed this argument might logically be carried much further. There are many who hold—and are they not right — that for all minor offences committed by women, particularly by women of good repute, private corporal chastisement of the parental or scholastic type should be substituted for imprisonment, with its ruin to reputation and corrupting associations.

As for the immodesty of whipping, it is obviously fanciful. We certainly do not favor the administration of flogging by men. This, it must be confessed, is an unnecessary and disgraceful addition to the moral pain. But if women are to be the executioners, what is there in the exposure which is especially offensive to the proprieties.

When a woman is admitted to a prison, she undergoes a physical search, which sometimes is more intimate even than a vaginal examination. This latter, she never escapes. Then she is periodically subjected to similar inspection, both for hygienic reasons and to prevent her from possessing contraband articles. Does any one ever protest against the immodesty of these searches? Would it be possible to dispense with them? Further, the prisoners are forced to bathe in a complete state of nudity in each others' presence and in presence of the women keepers. Does any one see any immodesty in this?

But why go to prison to measure the limits of modesty or immodesty entre femmes. Go to a Turkish bath, or ask some lady who frequents one. Enquire as to her scrupulous female room-mates or intimates of any sort as about the revelation of their secret charms in the process of the toilet, or on other chance occasion. Let it be understood, we do not mean vicious, but average women. It is not true that the vast majority of them are vitally indifferent regarding total or partial nudity, so long as the masculine eye is absolutely excluded.

Of course, it is humiliating to a woman to be strapped on a bench, or over the edge of a table, or to a ladder or post, with her skirts raised above her waist and her drawers off or loose about her heels, all these conditions being arranged in order that she may expiate her sin by the smart of her skin. But her humiliation is part of the penalty, and the semi-sexual feeling, called modesty, has nothing or almost nothing to do with her feelings, a fact which we think is amply proven by the consideration that other women, compelled to behold her plight or choosing to do so, are in no way abashed or ashamed at the spectacle which she presents.

Наконец, мы считаем, что теория о том, что порка деморализует, не имеет под собой ни разумного основания, ни здравого смысла. Почему так должно быть? Или, вернее, не намного меньше, чем любое другое наказание, которому может подвергнуться женщина. Сравните это с испытанием публичного процесса в суде, перед толпой любопытных и бессердечных зрителей. Сравните это с убожеством газетных сообщений о правонарушении, суде, наказании, общественном положении, внешности несчастного заблудшего существа. Сравните это с полицейской камерой, тюремным обыском, костюмом, стрижкой, жесткой дисциплиной, рабским трудом. Осмелимся сказать, что нет ни одной арестованной женщины из десяти тысяч, которая, будь у нее выбор, не избрала бы самой суровой кары, соединенной со спасением ее доброго имени и самоуважения, предпочитая даже ночь задержания и явку в суд, не говоря уже о других последующих мучениях. Мы считаем, что каждая респектабельная женщина, находящаяся под запретом закона, должна иметь эту возможность при первом правонарушении, подписав признание вины, которое будет храниться в архивах тайной полиции; она должна быть немедленно приговорена к порке большей или меньшей строгости в зависимости от ее преступления. Эта порка должна быть затем проведена женщинами в частном порядке без каких-либо промедлений, и ей следует позволить уйти своей дорогой, по крайней мере, на это время ее личность будет тщательно завуалирована. храниться в тайных архивах полиции; она должна быть немедленно приговорена к порке большей или меньшей строгости в зависимости от ее преступления. Эта порка должна быть затем проведена женщинами в частном порядке без каких-либо промедлений, и ей следует позволить уйти своей дорогой, по крайней мере, на это время ее личность будет тщательно завуалирована. храниться в тайных архивах полиции; она должна быть немедленно приговорена к порке большей или меньшей строгости в зависимости от ее преступления. Эта порка должна быть затем проведена женщинами в частном порядке без каких-либо промедлений, и ей следует позволить уйти своей дорогой, по крайней мере, на это время ее личность будет тщательно завуалирована.

То, что Рейнхард не считал порку деморализующей, достаточно ясно. Он подвергает этому трех женщин с хорошим характером, саму Ленхен, Леонору и молодую девушку Минни. Ни один из них не пострадал от этого в моральном тоне. Напротив, все они возвышаются в своих принципах, а не развращаются своим наказанием, что не так очевидно, как в отношении других тюремных опытов Ленхена.

Этими вступительными замечаниями мы рекомендуем нашим читателям последующее повествование. Мы уверены, что прочитанная с сочувствием, она доставит глубокое удовлетворение. Это ценное продолжение социологии и родственной ей науки: пенологии. Таким образом, он обращается к интеллекту. Но чувства и воображение не игнорируются, и те, кто получает художественное или чувственное наслаждение от хорошо округлых, волнистых женских соблазнов, прекрасных в сложных оттенках клубники и сливок, найдут немалое удовольствие при чтении страниц.
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@Tiredny, thanks for another interesting fragment. The author's arguments in favor of female JCP look quite convincing, at least for our community. The question is how convincing they are for a wide audience and the legal community. At the very least, it would be reasonable to consider corporal punishment of a certain degree of severity as a voluntary alternative to imprisonment.
 
A presumably true historical oddity about an English woman in the 18th century, Hannah Snell, who, after the death of her daughter and abandonment by her husband donned men's clothing and enlisted in the Royal Marines. During her time at sea, she was flogged twice, stripped to the waist and apparently her breasts were small enough that no one noticed anything amiss (pun intended).

https://alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar/1750-royal-marine-flogged-breasts/

And a story about the approximately 20 women who served in the Royal Navy at different times disguised as men, which mentions Hannah Snell


https://www.smh.com.au/entertainmen...in-the-great-age-of-sail-20020831-gdfl9c.html
 
windar said:
A presumably true historical oddity about an English woman in the 18th century, Hannah Snell, who, after the death of her daughter and abandonment by her husband donned men's clothing and enlisted in the Royal Marines. During her time at sea, she was flogged twice, stripped to the waist and apparently her breasts were small enough that no one noticed anything amiss (pun intended).

https://alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar/1750-royal-marine-flogged-breasts/
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It does seem incredible, but common people of both sexes were generally not as well nourished in the eighteenth century as they are today, so that may have helped her to continue with her subterfuge for so long.
It does beg the question, though, as to how she managed to conceal her sex when urinating and defecating in the close confines of a naval vessel in an age not known for its delicacy or refinement.
 
A few weeks back, I wrote a short story that is NOT really JCP, but... it is on the "fringe". I thought about posting here, but there are several problems:

1. It's NOT really pure JCP​
2. Version I'd like to post is "fan fiction" and I don't want to get this site in trouble​
3. Story is "light fluff" and NOT nearly as severe as typical stories posted here​

Anyhow, below is a pic of the cover (for the story I like best). When you click on the pic you'll see a version that has been "scrubbed" by censors to avoid the "fan fiction" problems with copywrite.

I'd be interested in hearing your comments on the story and whether the "unscrubbed" version can be posted here.

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Tiredny said:
1. It's NOT really pure JCP2. Version I'd like to post is "fan fiction" and I don't want to get this site in trouble3. Story is "light fluff" and NOT nearly as severe as typical stories posted here
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Sorry, I’m a little confused by the terminology here. The fact that the story is “light” does not disqualify it from being welcomed on our site. We have stories here that are both “soft” and “severe”. I read it and found it interesting.

I’m unfamiliar with the term “fan fiction”. What exactly is that and how would it get the site in trouble? Enlighten me on that,
 
Barbaria1 said:
Sorry, I’m a little confused by the terminology here. The fact that the story is “light” does not disqualify it from being welcomed on our site. We have stories here that are both “soft” and “severe”. I read it and found it interesting.

I’m unfamiliar with the term “fan fiction”. What exactly is that and how would it get the site in trouble? Enlighten me on that,
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"Fan Fiction" are stories written based upon works of others and those "others" typically own the copywrites. In this case, my story is based upon a TV series called "Orange is the New Black". To be clear, the characters are mine, but the setting is loosely from the TV series. Often in "fan faction" writers will appropriate characters as well as settings. Problem is US copywrite laws are an absolute mess. Lawyers send out "cease and desist" letters all the time and it's hard to tell who actually owns what. Lawyers, of course, claim their clients are the "owners", but only courts can sort through the maze of laws. It's degenerated into a situation where he with the most money to spend.... wins!

Hope this helps...
Tired
 
Hmmm … we do have stories here that are loosely based on well known things. I for example have one that is a spoof on the old television series MASH. Others could offer an opinion here. But my personal first take is that as long as one is careful not to directly copy something? … or offer a unique variation? … What do others think?
 
Tiredny said:
"Fan Fiction" are stories written based upon works of others and those "others" typically own the copywrites. In this case, my story is based upon a TV series called "Orange is the New Black". To be clear, the characters are mine, but the setting is loosely from the TV series. Often in "fan faction" writers will appropriate characters as well as settings. Problem is US copywrite laws are an absolute mess. Lawyers send out "cease and desist" letters all the time and it's hard to tell who actually owns what. Lawyers, of course, claim their clients are the "owners", but only courts can sort through the maze of laws. It's degenerated into a situation where he with the most money to spend.... wins!

Hope this helps...
Tired
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Writing a story based on something is not an issue. The Stan Goldman character is loosely based on "Law and Order" (the old ones, not the current revival, which, frankly, sucks). In the extremely unlikely event that anyone cared about what appears on this site, the mods would simply take it down.

Anyway, I would very much like to read it, so if you decide not to post it here, would you be so kind as to send me the story as a PM? Thanks.
 
Tiredny said:
"Fan Fiction" are stories written based upon works of others and those "others" typically own the copywrites. In this case, my story is based upon a TV series called "Orange is the New Black". To be clear, the characters are mine, but the setting is loosely from the TV series. Often in "fan faction" writers will appropriate characters as well as settings. Problem is US copywrite laws are an absolute mess. Lawyers send out "cease and desist" letters all the time and it's hard to tell who actually owns what. Lawyers, of course, claim their clients are the "owners", but only courts can sort through the maze of laws. It's degenerated into a situation where he with the most money to spend.... wins!

Hope this helps...
Tired
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If you'd like, send a copy to a moderator. If it is just based on a TV show Tree doesn't see a problem.
 
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Orange Turns BLACK AND BLUE
By Tiredny


Author's Note: Loosely based upon the TV series Orange is the New Black. Characters are of my own invention.​


Pepper turned to Maxine and in a hushed voice asked, “What are we going to do? They caught us having SEX in prison!! What were we thinking? I TOLD YOU WE SHOULD WAIT UNTIL LIGHTS-OUT!”

Maxine was getting frustrated with her twenty-eight-year-old girlfriend and answered, “Look we got caught. It's NOT the end of the world, Peeps! It's a 200 series SHOT (incident report). Our punishment will most likely be five or six days in SHU (Segregated Housing Unit – aka solitary). It won't affect our current release dates. Well... as long as we don't get any more 200 SHOT's. It used to be that you had to get three or four 200 SHOT's in a year before it had any effect.”

“What?? It can delay my release date! OH Noooooo...” cried a distraught Pepper.

“I just told you it probably will have NO impact! Peeps, how many 200 SHOT's do you have?”

“Ummm let me think...” responded Pepper, “Actually, I think I only have 100 series SHOT's, but five or six of them.”

“Peeps, 100 SHOT's aren't logged, so your record is clean. Will you please RELAX! You are driving me crazy!”

“But, Max, you said it 'used to be'. You know the new warden is 'clamping down'. What if they changed the rules? I mean, I'm supposed to get out of here in five months. Everyone is expecting me. What am I going to tell my family?”

Maxine was getting more frustrated by the minute and finally offered, “Peeps, if you are THAT concerned, you can always attend tonight's AAP.”

“AAP!? What's that?”

“AAP stands for Alternate Administrative Punishment. There is a session every night 30 minutes before lights-out. You go, sign the forms, take your medicine and the 200 SHOT is erased - never to be added to your record.”

An ecstatic Pepper exclaimed, “Oh thank you, Maxie! I just knew you'd find a solution. That's what we'll do then.”

“Now wait a minute, Peeps! I don't want to go to AAP! I'd rather serve my time in SHU.”

“Now wait, if you do that, the SHOT still gets put on your record; doesn't it?”

“Yeah... it does, but I already told you the probability that it will impact our release dates is low.”

“LOW is not good enough! We are going to APP.”

“It's AAP and I'm NOT going! You can go.”

Now Pepper was the frustrated one. Glaring at her thirty-two-year-old girlfriend she queried, “What do you mean; you're not going, Max? Why not?”

“I'd rather spend my time SITTING in SHU catching up on my reading and correspondence. Meanwhile, you'll be back here working, but NOT sitting.”

An even more exasperated Pepper sought clarification with, “Max, what are you talking about?”

“Peeps, I told you that in AAP you'd have to take your medicine. What did you think I meant?”

“Well, I just assumed we'd get a whole bunch of extra work assignments, but awful ones - like cleaning toilets, shoveling snow.”

“Not even close, Peeps. You get paddled.”

“PADDLED??? You mean like in High School?” asked a stunned Pepper.

“Yep, just like in High School. I'm just guessing here, but I suspect you never experienced a paddling. Right?”

“Actually, everyone got paddled. I got it a dozen or so times and... it hurts like HELL!”

“Really, Peeps? A 'dozen or so' times! Do you remember any of them?”

“Not really... Except for the four times I wore a skirt. Can you believe the principal made me lift my skirt and he applied the paddle right on my panties? My god that hurt! Ohhh wait... don't tell me we get paddled on our prison underpants?”

“Well for once, Peeps, you are right. You do NOT get paddled on your prison underpants. Peeps, your underpants are dropped to your ankles.”

“WHAT!!! That is dreadful! You mean we get paddled on our bare bottoms?! No, No... This can't be legal,” exclaimed Pepper.

“Again, you are correct. It is NOT! That's why it only happens, Peeps, when you fill out and sign a BOP form officially REQUESTING an AAP.”


~00O00~​


The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was as mindless as any government bureaucracy. It was chock full of 'stupid rules' enforced by 'stupid people'. Take drug offenses for example. If an inmate was high, nobody cared. After all, 95% of the inmates were in prison because of drugs (either selling or addicted or both). But if an inmate was caught in the act of taking drugs, that was punished by a 200 series SHOT. Much, much worse was if an inmate was caught smuggling drugs in - that meant a 400 series SHOT and usually years added to their sentence in addition to a lengthy term is SHU.

In short, BOP had created an environment where drugs were of extreme high demand and only seriously punished the 'satisfiers' of this demand, while those consuming the drugs were lightly punished... if at all.

Even the AAP was entangled in a bureaucratic mess. BOP knew AAP was far, far more effective than SHU (solitary confinement) in female prisons, yet it was only available in the minimum-security Female Prison Camps. Disciplinary problems in these “camps” were for the most part minor compared to medium and maximum security prisons where discipline problems often spiraled out of control.

BOP's attitude was: “Why bother? Nothing can reform the 'hard core' convicts.” So, they just locked them away in SHU for increasingly longer periods and the inmates exited SHU even crazier than they went in.

It is just a total shame, because BOP knew that the corporal punishment in AAP worked on female inmates. Female prisoners were far worse behaved than their male counterparts. Thus, they built bigger and bigger facilities to house the misbehaving female inmates in single cell segregated units, with nothing to show for it. That is, NO net improvement in behavior; if anything, behavior deteriorated.

Female inmates didn't like SHU, because it was difficult having no one to talk to for several days. In comparison by BOP's own research, female inmates greatly FEARED paddlings and would do ANYTHING (even complying with rules) to avoid.


~00O00~​


“Oh, well then that's what we'll do. We'll fill out that form and as you said, 'take our medicine'. This way our records will be clean, and our release dates will NOT be delayed.”

“Peeps, I don't want a paddling. Like you said, 'It hurts like hell', and yes... I can say that from experience. I've gone the AAP route before.”

Pepper then changed tactics and started pleading: “Please, please, Maxie, you've got to go with me. I'd be lost without you. Max, you can't let me go to AAP alone.”

“Yes, I can let you go alone, but once again, Peeps, I'll do as you ask; even though... I'll pay for it in the end. 'IN THE END' - get it?”

“Yeah, funny, ha ha. So what do we do?”

“First thing we do is go to the admin desk and request a set of AAP forms. We then fill out all three pages answering all of the questions. We date the last form, but do NOT sign. One of the medical team, usually a nurse, will witness our signatures.”

“Medical?? What do they have to do with this?” asked Pepper.

“Medical has the authority to reject AAP requests. We return the filled-out forms to the admin desk and then an hour before lights out we go to the Medical Clinic. Medical verifies the info we provided is correct. That is, we've had no heart problems or medical emergencies within the last 3 months. We then pee in a cup and they check the pupils of our eyes. Once the sample results show negative for drugs or pregnancy, Medical then performs a visual inspection of our bare bottoms. Based upon this inspection and they check one of the three boxes on the last page:

OK for paddle or strap​
OK for strap ONLY​
Rejected​

This is the page we sign, they witness, and we take with us to the AAP room.”

“WOW, seems like they go through a lot of trouble,” observed a surprised Pepper.

“Yeah, well BOP doesn't like lawsuits, so they make sure we are 'fit for the paddle'. They also know that inmates in the past have tried to cheat by taking alcohol or drugs. Ergo, Peeps, in their sincere concern for our well-being, they want to ensure we get the full benefit from our spankings.”

“WOW, how thoughtful of them! Perish the thought we might NOT get the full benefit from our spankings. I feel much better about this entire process now. But what was this strap only option? You said we'd get a paddling?” questioned Pepper.

“Well, if you been recently paddled and your backside is blistered and black and blue, Medical can restrict you to the prison strap. Apparently, it doesn't bruise as much. Like I said before, Peeps, BOP doesn't like lawsuits.”

“Once again this is very considerate of them! So, if your rump is already very sore, you get off easy. Right, Max?”

“Ahhh, NOT so fast, Peeps. While that strap hurts less than the paddle, you get more swats. From what I've seen there is little difference, except bruising and the fact that they will frequently apply the strap to your thighs.”

“Oh NOW that is nice. If your bottom is already black and blue, they can paint your thighs some nice shades of blue, black and red. How very thoughtful of them!”

“Yes, indeed BOP has this process down pat. We should be thankful that we are in such good hands.”

“Max, can I assume the paddle will be applied only to our bottoms?”

“Yes, that's my understanding.”

“So how many swats will we get?”

“Depends upon the level of the SHOT and how many SHOT's. It's six swats for a 100 series, twelve swats for a 200 series, eighteen for a 300 and twenty-four for a 400 series. It's rare to have more than one SHOT, but I've seen cases where people earned more than a single SHOT. Now instead of the set of six paddle swats, you can opt for ten strokes with the strap. They'll explain all of this once we are in the AAP room, although I'm not sure in what language. Nobody understands their explanations.”

“Max, did you say we can opt for the strap? I thought Medical decided for us.”

“Yes, and yes, Peeps. Medical can restrict us to the strap, but we all have the option to be punished with the strap. It's kinda of weird, but the Latino girls almost always prefer the strap. I don't know if it's a cultural thing or just that they are more familiar with being spanked with a strap. Anyhow, yes, you can choose to be punished with the strap. In fact, in our case we can choose both! Since we are due 12 swats, we could choose the paddle for the first six and then ten swats with the strap in lieu of the remaining six paddle swats.”

“How would that work, Maxie? We holler 'time out' and request a change in implements?”

“I don't think I mentioned, Peeps, but we get six swats at a time. Typically, you get six swats then return to the back of the line, so time elapses between each set of six swats. It's kind of convoluted, but it depends upon how many people show up at AAP. CO's understand the rules and it's rumored they even have to pass a written test before they can participate in an AAP.”

“OK, I think I understand. At each set of six, we can request a strapping in lieu of a paddling?”

“Basically, that's it. Now that you know what's involved, Peeps, are you sure you want to go through with this?”

“Absolutely, Max! I do NOT want to go to SHU. Even more importantly, I don't want my record to reflect a SHOT which may delay my release date. We are going! Besides, getting paddled isn't the end of the world.”

“OK, then let's go get those damn forms...”

With that they both headed to the admin desk.


~00O00~​


An hour before lights out, Pepper and Maxine reported to Medical. They were processed exactly as Maxine described and both were OK'd for the paddle. They were then sent to the AAP room, a medium sized room with several tables along the short wall opposite the doorway. Then in the middle of this room there was an apparatus to hold inmates during their punishment. Its main feature was an adjustable padded inclined ramp approximately a foot wide that the inmates leaned over. Its height was adjusted by the CO's with a foot lever. Once in position the inmate would be “leaned over” with their bottoms in perfect position for a paddling. While the “ramp” was strong, it was NOT intended to support the inmates. Two other features were some bungee cords to lift the inmates' upper garments clear of their bottoms and two weight loaded handles that the inmates had to reach out and grab.

Soon the door was closed and in the room, there were six inmates, three CO's (correction officers) and a nurse. The Lead CO started off with, “Welcome to our OPTIONAL Alternate Administrative Punishment Session. I CANNOT stress enough that this is OPTIONAL. If at any time you decide to “opt out”, just head out the door and return to your dorm.” He then read the rules for AAP and as Maxine predicted, no one understood the overly complicated rules. Clearly this statement was drafted by one of BOP's legal eagles.

Of the three CO's, there were two females, and their leader was a male. (This was pretty consistent with the make-up of the prison CO population.) After reading the prepared statement, the Lead CO continued, “Yeah, I know that was awful, so let me try to explain our expectations in simple terms. In short, you must participate and cooperate with your punishment. Failure to do so and your SHOT will NOT be erased. You do that by quickly obeying all commands and once in position, you do NOT let go of the handles until instructed to do so. Hanging from the padded ramp you'll see we have two punishment implements, a paddle and the prison strap.” He then turned towards the ramp and pointed. He paused and then exclaimed, “OH HELL! The paddle is missing! Now we have to call the whole thing off. SHIT!!”

One of the female CO's asked, “You mean we don't have another paddle? How is that possible?”

“Of course, we have more, but they are down in the warehouse. But think about the time to get warehouse keys, transportation, find the paddles in the warehouse and get back here. We'd be here most of the night.”

“Excuse me, Sir,” injected Maxine (pointing to one of the tables), “but isn't that the paddle on the far table over there.” She was pointing to a dark wood paddle lying on its side supported by the table and the wall. On it was a faded inscription that could just barely be made out:

Property of LHS​

The other female CO ran to the table and grabbed the paddle, “Yup, here it is.” She then hung it on its hook, but this time the opposite side was facing out and you could clearly read the inscription in bold white letters:

SHOT ERASER​
 
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