A non-profit child’s rights group, Centre for Children’s Health, Education, Orientation and Protection (CEE-HOPE), has called for the immediate abolition of corporal punishment in schools. The group ...

In Alabama, it's still legal for parents, and in some cases schools, to physically use corporal punishment. While many states have banned the practice in classrooms, Alabama law allows corporal ...

Kentucky is one of 19 states that still allow corporal punishment in our public schools. Corporal punishment is an archaic method of discipline that allows the use of physical force on a minor or ...

After several years of failed attempts, a state lawmaker is once again trying to outlaw paddling and other forms of corporal punishment in Kentucky schools. State Rep. Steve Riley, R-Glasgow, filed ...

Throughout the twentieth century the British Colonial Office sought to limit the severity of corporal punishment and to regulate more closely its use in the colonies. This article has looked at one ...