No more “shame parades”

The New York Times has a story today about so-called shame parades, where suspects — suspects, mind you, not convicted criminals — are walked through the streets, usually shackled, and generally shamed.

But the Ministry of Public Security recently ordered police departments to stop parading suspects like that.

Remember the public stocks? You can hardly go to any New England historical attraction and not find some remnant of our own public shaming methods. Sometimes? I miss those stocks.

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One Response to No more “shame parades”

  1. OHHHHHHHHHHH in China! Seems that China is making progress (slowly) to improve its judicial system.

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