as well as a rough overview of the Soviet regime under Stalin’s dictatorship. Through these aspects we will gain knowledge of the daily routine through the eyes of an encampment prisoner. The labor camps in 50’s Russia under the leadership of Stalin were extreme due to the poor treatment imposed on the prisoners. Not only were the conditions poor but also the treatment they received from the prison guards was near intolerable. The prisoner’s quarters were small and cramped; they did not have
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The freed prisoner is often interpreted as a direct representation of a philosopher. After the freed prisoner escapes from the darkness of the cave‚ he witnesses the sun‚ which is seen as a notion of knowledge and enlightenment (Meinwald). Like a philosopher‚ the prisoner learns to set aside their prior beliefs in order to contemplate their new version of reality. After becoming fully acclimated with the nature of the sun‚ the freed prisoner reaches the conclusion that the sun
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Students role-played the prisoners themselves‚ and prison guards. It was conducted in the basement of the psychology department on the Stanford University campus in Stanford‚ California. The experiment turned into an ethical conflict with Zimbardo himself‚ and society. Cruel behavior coming from the guards dehumanized the prisoners themselves‚ generally creating a terrible scene to watch. This experiment was mainly conducted to illustrate the cognitive dissonance theory. Prisoners started to become insane
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not always what it seems. A group of prisoners were chained up in a cave since there childhood‚ each prisoner was chained to each other by their heads.The prisoners were forced to face a blank wall while they were in the cave. Behind the prisoners there was a fire however the prisoners could not see the fire but between the prisoners and the fire there would a be puppet show where people would walk‚ talk and carry objects to keep the prisoners amused. The prisoners perceive only shadows of the people
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130). The prisoners committed a crime‚ in which they wronged the rest of the public‚ so it is only right for the sovereign power to discipline these criminals. In addition‚ the supermax prison reflects the sort of power relations that Foucault endorses. The prison in itself acts as its own society and represents the rest of society‚ which the criminal wronged. This is shown by prisoners being sent to these supermax prisons by a Prison Administrator and not a judge or a jury2. These prisoners are cut
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stated by criminal justice authorities to keep prisoners away from committing further crimes. Previously‚ the purpose of such programs was to improve the character of prisoners but now it has been directed towards complete avoidance of crimes. These programs assist criminals to start new life free from criminal activities. There are several methods or disciplines of prisoner rehabilitation (Cartmell‚ 2011). Some prisons are into the faith-based prisoner rehabilitation wherein religion is used to encourage
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see if people’s behaviors are affected by their social situations or by their morals and personalities. Zimbardo’s hypothesis was that prison guards would be brutal due to their mentality of being prison guards. The prisoners likewise would be rebellious due to the fact that prisoners are people who broke the laws in the first place. There are several weaknesses in the way that Zimbardo designed his study experiment. One was that his sample didn’t successfully represent the population. There were
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story‚ Plato establishes a cave in which prisoners are chained down and forced to look upon the front wall of the cave. The two main elements to the story are that of the fictional metaphor of the prisoners‚ and the philosophical tenet in which said story is supposed to represent‚ thus presenting us with the allegory itself. The multi-faceted meanings that can be perceived from the "Cave" can be seen in the beginning with the presence of our prisoners who are chained within the darkness of the
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empirical research. For the latter the 11unicipal Jail .o f Romblon‚ Quezon City Jail‚ Provincial Jail of Batangas and the New Bilibid Prison were utilized as venues as actual investigation. Ten maximum-security prisoners‚ six medium security-prisoners and five miniJ11um-security .prisoners . were informally interviewed. A pack of cigarettes always helped in eliciting honest and more d~wn to earth answers. 60 . .’ 1977] PHILIPPINE PRISON SYSTEM 61 On the side of the administration‚ several
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The Nazi’s took advantage of every aspect to having prisoners in their camps‚ whether they took away lives or put people to work. In the article A Tortured Legacy‚ written by Andrew Nagorski explains‚ “Auschwitz was both a death camp and a complex of labor camps‚ which accounts for a relatively large number of survivors.” (“Nagorski”) Auschwitz camps murdered million people‚ but the prisoners put aside that worked survived through the harsh conditions and ended up living
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