The Stanford Prison Experiment was unlike any other experiment. It was supposed to be an experiment on how people would conform to the roles of guards and prisoners in a role-playing exercise. Over 70 students applied for the aid, but only 25 was selected and they would get paid 15 dollars a day for their participation in the experiment. They took the 25 college students from the university and turn half of them into guards and the other half into prisoners. The Abu Graib situation was way different in my opinion. There were no college students in their nor experiments. It was real people being tortured and being killed in the prison. Some of those people were terrorist and some of them was innocent people with families. Being that I’m in the military and have been to Afghanistan several
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You could be walking down the road and shots would ring out or an IED would go off in the road while you were driving on it. It was the most attack place for us soldiers. So, could you have imaged being there trying to be a prison guard of 6000 plus with only 300 guards and without any training. On top of that you were getting bomb every day. (MuzlamicRayGun, 2012) When they 1st started interrogating the prisoners they weren’t getting any intel out of them so Mr. Rumsfeld gave his approval for hasher interrogations, this was in August 2003. With these techniques, they wanted break the prisoners down mentally and physically so they could try and get some valuable intel out of them. They did all kind of horrifying things to these prisoners. In on picture they had a male detainee standing on top of 2 boxes his hands cuffed between his legs and his other leg cuffed to the door behind him. (Solzhenitsyn, n.d.) They also used military police dogs to intimidate the prisoners. I don’t know about them but I probably would’ve told them everything. They put them through so much pain and mental
You could be walking down the road and shots would ring out or an IED would go off in the road while you were driving on it. It was the most attack place for us soldiers. So, could you have imaged being there trying to be a prison guard of 6000 plus with only 300 guards and without any training. On top of that you were getting bomb every day. (MuzlamicRayGun, 2012) When they 1st started interrogating the prisoners they weren’t getting any intel out of them so Mr. Rumsfeld gave his approval for hasher interrogations, this was in August 2003. With these techniques, they wanted break the prisoners down mentally and physically so they could try and get some valuable intel out of them. They did all kind of horrifying things to these prisoners. In on picture they had a male detainee standing on top of 2 boxes his hands cuffed between his legs and his other leg cuffed to the door behind him. (Solzhenitsyn, n.d.) They also used military police dogs to intimidate the prisoners. I don’t know about them but I probably would’ve told them everything. They put them through so much pain and mental