Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse

known as Abu Ghraib and photographed themselves doing so. Challenging the same ideals of freedom and justice that President Bush stated the need for, the Abu Ghraib photos displayed sneering US soldiers posing with naked prisoners, detainees commanded to perform sexual acts, and piles of hooded bodies.…

Matthew Alexander, a military officer who "conducted more than 300 investigations and supervised more than 1000" in Iraq, argues that "the harsh abuse approach to interrogations is vastly inferior to the rapport-building approach he used to interrogate successfully a number of high-value captives." Matthew Alexander argues "even in a ticking time bomb situation, which he encountered in Iraq with suicide bombers, a relationship-building approach is superior and does not have to be…

CACI Premier Technology is a private contractor that provided the interrogators in Abu Ghraib prison. CACI interrogators, have been accused of participating in torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Even though the interrogators worked under the United States Army, they were not bound by Army regulations. “Now, you have some contractors, some civilians who are not under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, who have been sent there specifically to do interrogation work with great…

perfect leadership causes incidents like Abu Ghraib to take place.…

people will fall into their roles in their situation. At Abu Ghraib, US soldiers were exploited for using awful techniques of torture of Iraqi people. Many people have drawn similarities between the two. I believe that the similarities outweigh the differences between the two events and that Zimbardo’s experiment was…

authority most often reveals human nature repugnantly; however, it teaches society their individual capability thus they can prevent unethical actions. In “The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism,” Marianna Szegedy-Maszak writes about the unethical treatment and results of American guards physically violating the Iraqi prisoners. The guards with authority over the criminals were charged for “crimes against humanity” (Szegedy-Maszak 75). The author analyzes why the guards preceded to…

1628). In February of 2004, photographs that served as proof of prisoner torture were discovered from the site of Abu Ghraib in Iraq and leaked to the public. In the camps, these photos were used to humiliate prisoners, frighten other detainees, and to intimidate the prisoners’ families and communities; some prisoners felt degraded to the point of depression and some became suicidal (McClintock 59). If events like this occurred in Abu Ghraib, it was possible that they were occurring at…

that 70% of the subjects reached the maximum shock potential very similar to the results of Milgram’s original experiment (ABC News; Burger). Another real life example of Milgram’s findings is that of prisoner abuse scandals. It was only eleven years ago that the media released disturbing news of abuse at an Iraq prison,…

Torture is generally ineffective, effects those subjected to it for the remainder of their lives, and is unacceptable no matter the reason. Consider the United Nations, what it is and what it stands for. The United Nations wrote and signed something known as the Geneva Conventions. The Geneva Conventions explicitly state in article 3 that, “humane treatment is required for all people in enemy hands. The use of murder, mutilation, torture, and the use of humiliating or…

intrinsic traits within one’s personality are responsible for cruel and offensive behaviour displayed in prison environments. Zimbardo conducted a study whereby he aimed to investigate whether individuals would conform to roles of either a guard, or prisoner, in a simulated prison setting. The participants were recruited by a newspaper advertisement in the Palo Alto Times and The Stanford Daily offering…