Volume 1 Whops and Clobber R Humphries - The Woody Back to ...

Whops and Clobber
Katie had purposefully selected a size too small.
Deborah could barely fasten the button at the waist.
When the bell rang midway through the
morning lectures the Woody gals knew what to
expect.
“Assemble the inmates,” Katie announced over
the public address system. “Deborah Morton, Phase
5, twelve stroke public flogging for vandalism.”
The announcement that Deborah would
receive twelve strokes attracted a lot of raised
eyebrows. Public floggings were traditionally divided
into two categories.
Mandatory floggings generally related to repeat
offenses such as being chucked out of lectures three
times during a seven-day period or being chucked out
of assembly three times during a single term.
Mandatory floggings were carried out during Callover
and were limited to six strokes of the senior cane.
Punishment floggings were administered for
more serious offenses that included cussing out the
Brass or the Elite, smoking, boozing, scrapping or
cutting curfew. At any time day or night the inmates
could be summonsed to the assembly hall to witness
a punishment flogging which was comprised of nine
strokes.
A twelve-stroke flogging was unprecedented
and the news was not well received by the inmates of
the facility.
“Bummer! Twelve strokes is a bit strong,”
grumbled Nix as she and her chums strode towards
the assembly hall.