[investigateworld]

Correct. As the wagon trains set out on the Oregon Trail, the stated rules were a rapist was to receive 39 lashes a day for three days.
Still digging to see if it ever happened.

[HangnJudge]

"Correct. As the wagon trains set out on the Oregon Trail, the stated rules were a rapist was to receive 39 lashes a day for three days."

The use of prisons for convicted felons is a relatively recent development
Usually the convicts were physical punished(lashes), made to pay restitution, or killed. Much more efficient