Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: It was thought that physical punishment , such as whippings , only made prisoners worse .
A:
The hard corporal punishment , such as whippings , used in other penal stations was thought to only serve to harden criminals , and did nothing to turn them from their immoral ways .