Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse

Six Days in Prison Prisoner number 8612. You read this and think, alright, why do I care about some random prisoner? Maybe your thoughts even flash to some memory you have about someone you know who went to prison. Prisoner 8612 was the first prisoner to break and leave the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. Whether he was just just faking his unstable state or if he was truly unable to handle the harsh treatment, we don 't know. It was under Philip Zimbardo’s leadership that the Stanford…

It seems that the government labels the prisoners as detainees to circumvent laws set forth by the United Nations. These laws say prisoners cannot be kept after a conflict has ended. I was also surprised to learn only ten detainees are actually on trial; therefore, the prison seems to be a waste of American taxpayer’s money because it is…

Torture is defined as the intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering for purposes such as obtaining information, a confession, punishing, or intimidating someone. However, there are several other modern methods to get one to admit, and torture should not be deemed as one. Torture can result in not only physical affliction, but also emotional and psychological. Every human beings rights should always be respected and guaranteed regardless of the situation. Torture is…

image flow to the incidents of Abu Ghraib in which the United States government decided to “suppress the release of…photographs that depict the abuse, rape, and torture of Afghan and Iraqi prisoners in American custody” (Nelson, 305). To justify this decision to the American people, President Obama claims that the release “‘would…further inflame anti-American opinion and…put [American] troops in greater danger’” (Nelson, 305). Since the release of the images from Abu Ghraib further puts America…

Christianity Today entitled, “5 Reasons Torture is always wrong.” In this article, Gushee lays out five reasons why the Bible does not complement torture, specifically EITs. He begins with the argument that “torture violates the dignity of the human being.” Gushee cites Genesis 1:26-28 where all men are “created in the image of God” and when society tortures other human beings, they are hurting the handiwork and prized possession of God. Secondly, Gushee argues that “torture mistreats the…

where 24 participants would later be placed there as either guards or prisoners. The participants were college-age men who initially…

United States today is should prisoners have rights and if they should what rights do they deserve to have and which ones should be stripped away from them. Some people believe that if a person commits a crime that they do not deserve to have any rights at all, but others may argue that everyone even a criminal should have some type of rights given to them. Prisoners must have several basic rights because they cannot fend for themselves while behind bars. When prisoners go into the prison system…

Alex K. Rich and Gerson Moreno-Riano are the authors of the article War on Terror. Gerson Moreno-Riano earned a doctorate in Philosophy and a Master of Arts degree in political science from the University of Cincinnati (Rich, 2016, p.7). The purpose of this article is to explain the overview and understanding on how the war on terrorism is fought. Although the authors mention several effect that war has throughout the world, the authors argue that the war on terror causes the largest impact…

How to Teach Children the Art of Obedience and Disobedience Since some social psychology professors proved a theory by several experiments, the theory has been accepted by the many social psychologists that human behavior can be markedly influenced and change by any situation, even though sometimes the changes of behaviors were not ethically right. Stanley Milgram, a professor of psychology at Yale University conducted a series of social psychology experiments to verify how ordinary German…

1953 Iranian Coup d’Etat The study of this event goes back to the post-WWII discussions over Iranian oil. For many years, whilst being politically involved in Iran, the US had not pursued comprehensive economic ties. For decades, Iran had hosted oil concessions owned by the USSR and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (Britain), and these two powers held significant power in the region. They alone controlled most of Iran's oil reserves, a vital key to Iranian economic stability and strength. Although…