Moreover, if the punishment for insubordination is very cruel, there is none of the flogging which still goes on in English prisons: such a punishment would be absolutely impossible in France.
Kropotkin discusses the absence of flogging in French prisons, emphasizing a more civilized approach to punishment.
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