In addition to making amends by undergoing punishment there is also an element of "learning your lesson" and after serving their time wrongdoers can start again with a clean sheet.
Some penal theorists, however, especially those who connect punishment to apology, will reply that what offenders owe precisely includes accepting, undertaking, or undergoing punishment.
A variation of this idea is that punishment is a kind of expiation: offenders should undergo punishment in their own interests to discharge their guilt and to make themselves acceptable to society again.
Moreover, while Orphism presents a heavily moralized version of metempsychosis in accordance with which we are born again for punishment in this life so that our body is the prison of the soul while it undergoes punishment, it is not clear that the same was true in Pythagoreanism.
In addition, some members of the Central Committee wanted him to undergo punishment of some kind.
A novella for 6-to-10-year-olds, it centers on the developing relationship between a spoiled young prince and the street urchin engaged to undergo punishments in his stead.
No reason was given for such treatment but in one specification, accused beat a PW while that PW was undergoing other punishment.
(A recent Cabinet Office review recommended that those undergoing community punishments should wear fluorescent vests to shame them publicly).More importantly, the public is quite often ahead of the game.
First, in the sacrament of penance it did not suffice to have the guilt (culpa) of sin forgiven through absolution alone; one also needed to undergo temporal punishment (poena, from p[o]enitentia, "penance") because one had offended Almighty God.
The heat is ferocious, and the men are instructed to drink bottles of water; they "hydrate" and then stand in a row, on a berm, pissing; they train in clumsy gas-protection suits, complete with masks, and horse their way through a football game in the stifling equipment; they undergo bizarre punishments, get into brawls and threaten to kill one another.
Manning being denied his Constitutional right to Due Process of law and undergoing cruel and unusual punishment which is banned by the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
