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This book consists of articles from Wikia. Pages: 69. Chapters: Penal imprisonment, Punishments, Sentencing, Cadena temporal, Labor camp, Prison rape, Prison riot, Solitary confinement, Boot camp, Cruel and unusual punishment, Prisoner abuse, Administrative detention, Amende honorable, Amercement, Badge of shame, Bitlaha, Blood money, Boot camp, Cadena temporal, Cangue, Castigation, Chastisement, Chemical castration, Child discipline, Collective punishment, Comminatory, Conditional discharge, Confiscation, Cyphonism, Degradation nationale, Day-fine, Deferred sentence, Deportation, Detention, Diesel therapy, Drumming out, Electronic tagging, Exile, Felony disenfranchisement, Fine, Gating, House arrest, Imperial ban, Jankers, Kasepekang, Mercy, Mirror punishment, Nuisance fee, Parading on donkey, Parsimony, Penal transportation, Peshotanu, Pindown, Pittura infamante, Postenpflicht, Probation, Psychological punishment, Public humiliation, Punishment, Punishment, Reduction in rank, Riding the rail, Sanctions, Shock incarceration, Shunning, Standing cell, Suspended sentence, Suspension, Symbole, Tarring and feathering, Time-out, Traffic ticket, Unit fine, Weregild. Excerpt: Cadena temporal and cadena perpetua are punishments notably present in the Philippine legal system. Cadena temporal included imprisonment for at least 12 years and one day, in chains, at hard and painful labor; the loss of many basic civil rights; and subjection to lifetime surveillance. Cadena perpetua is identical except that it is a sentence of life as opposed to a temporary status.The "title" of the punishment is actually descriptive, as cadena is a Spanish word meaning chain while temporal means impermanent or temporary, in addition to the meaning it shares with English and perpetua, means continuous in Latin. The use of this colonial punishment has been reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Weems v. United States, 217 U.S. 349 (1910). Derived from the Spanish penal Code, the punishment of "c...
