crime no matter how serious. There are many different crimes that can land you in prison and unfortunately so many people have committed these crimes that our prisons are becoming overpopulated. These prisons all have different severities which the prisoners are to serve. Some prisons are meant to break you as to others which only serve as rehabilitation facilities. “The United States has among the highest incarceration rates in the world. More people are behind bars in the United States than any other
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The setting was a controlled prison environment at Stanford University. The experiment was meant to study the process in which “guards” and “prisoners” learn to become obedient‚ and an authoritarian. The subjects were recruited through an advertisement in the local newspaper. Out of 75 responses to the ad‚ 21 college-age men were chosen to become the “prisoners”‚ and the other half would become the “guards”. This study was meant to take place over a two week period‚ but was cut short because of the
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Cave‚ a group of prisoners are chained inside a cave. The only thing the prisoners can see are shadows from events happening outside displayed on the wall. One of the prisoners is finally set free and leaves the cave. After seeing everything there is to see outside‚ he returns to the cave to inform the other prisoners of what awaits them. Instead of the other prisoners listening to him‚ they refuse to believe what he is saying. The focus of this story is not about what the prisoners do‚ or do not do
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to them. Plato begins this lesson as a deep cave that possesses prisoners inside‚ these prisoners have been there since birth and have seen nothing else but the cave they dwell in. These prisoners are chained to a wall were it is physically impossible to move their arms‚ legs and their necks from against the wall they are positioned on. Behind the prisoners is a sort of puppet show‚ where men will walk along a road
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camps to the Nazis in Germany that were mainly for either executing prisoners or forcing them to work in a variety of different fields. These two camps were known more as complexes due to the many sub camps both Auschwitz and Buchenwald had. Concentration camps were a key to the Nazi’s plan of annihilation of people who they had no interest in‚ either because of their racial or social qualities. Some examples included Jews‚ prisoners of war‚ bisexuals‚ and the mentally disordered. Auschwitz was a
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Attica Prison during its bloody 1971 riot! What suspects had done was to answer a local newspaper ad calling for volunteers in a study of the psychological effects of prison life. We wanted to see what the psychological effects were of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. To do this‚ we decided to set up a simulated prison and then carefully note the effects of this institution on the behavior of all those within its walls. More than 70 applicants answered our ad and were given diagnostic interviews
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The music was paradoxical in concentration camps because music helped prisoners remember who they are and what they came from; music helped them survive when they thought the end was coming‚ and it helped them get out of doing harder jobs. Prisoners were beaten and brainwashed day in and day out. Therefore‚ often time they would forget who they really were and where they came from. Music helped with this. Since the prisoners were brutally worked they forgot their self worth‚ so “music helped inmates
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The Standford Prison Experiment Introduction Professor Philip Zimbardo led a team of researchers in conducting an experiment on prison life at Standford University in 1971. Zimbardo wanted to test his hypothesis that it was the prisoners and guards inherent personality trait that leads to abusive and violent behavior in the prisons. Twenty-four predominately white male middle class men agreed to participate in a 7-14 day experiment in return for $15.00 a day‚ the equivalent of approximately $90
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Prison was not only a prison‚ it also had other activities which the prisoners could get involved in so they would not spend all day locked in a cell. For example a very important part of the prison was the famous Library which was built inside the Yum Territorial Prison. It was not a very fancy library‚ the prison could hardly afford books for the prisoners and for the people of Yuma to use. This library did not only help the prisoners but also other people who were not inmates as well. The library
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of aggression‚ labels‚ and power dynamics. 22 mentally and physically healthy participants were recruited through a newspaper ad and randomly assigned the role of “prison guard” or “prisoner.” A portion of the basement of the Stanford University psychology building was converted into a makeshift “prison”. The “prisoners” were informed that most of their right right would be taken away and the “guards” were given minimal instructions. The results were so extreme that what they had planned to be a two-week
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