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Like the holed paddle, there is a version of the strap with holes. It intentionally increases the risk and severity of blistering if administered on the bare skin. Martin Tabert, a 22-year-old man arrested for vagrancy, died after being hit about 100 times [3] with a 5-foot leather strap in 1921.
Arkansas rules authorized prison officials to beat inmates with a five-foot leather strap known as a "bull hide." [3] An earlier suit had resulted in a decision permitting the use of the strap, provided that "appropriate safeguards" were in place. [4]
Leather or nylon belts are often used instead of belly chains. These restraint belts have a metal ring on the front, through which the handcuffs are plugged and then put on the detainee's wrists. The belt is then placed around the detainee's waist and secured with a buckle; some models can also be locked with a padlock .
The difference with a strapping, although in practice both terms are also used unprecisely as synonyms, is that a strap is harder, made from heavier and/or thicker leather, and may be specially made for discipline and have a handle (notably a prison strap), unlike a 'real' belt. They can be used for beating children.
The harder you wielded the strap, the more ineffective it would become. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.218.125 03:04, 18 October 2013 (UTC) How come in that case that some Canadian prison straps did not have holes in them? -- Alarics 08:01, 18 October 2013 (UTC) Because not all of them are built like that.
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He burst the leather strap from eye-hole to eye-hole and was free again. After another struggle, the strap was wrapped tightly around his wrists. He was brought to the scaffold where a strap was wrapped around his ankles, followed by a cap and noose. Just as Pierrepoint pushed the lever, Richter jumped up with bound feet.
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