The Prisoner

atrocious outcomes. The metal brutality of the guards towards the prisoners increased over the days. The experiment only lasted five days in which the guards were allowed to play around with a person’s mental and physical health. In addition, in the video of “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” it says that prisoner 8612 was released after speaking with Zimbardo. Prisoner number 8612, returned to the prison to release the remaining prisoners from the prison. However, the group of researchers and…

allegory of the cave within the context of education and by creating a scene in which Socrates tells Glaucon, one of Socrates’ interlocutors, to envision prisoners who have been bound by chains since childhood. Their necks and feet are restrained in a way that renders them incapable of moving or looking around them. For their entire lives all these prisoners saw was what was in front of them, which is the wall of a cave (Plato, 2012). In the theory that Plato presents, the cave signifies…

were built. Adolf Hitler built these camps to kill the Jews as well as other undesirables throughout Germany and all of Europe. These camps had atrocious living conditions with many of the prisoners dying of starvation, disease, and execution. In addition to torturing and eventually executing most of the prisoners in the camps, the Germans also used them to perform hard manual labor that was necessary to support the war effort. Three of the most well-known and most frequented camps during this…

inmates, prisoners’ mental health, gang activity, and overcrowding. Overcrowding is arguably one of the main problems that prisons face, with mental health and financial problems being other problems that are often addressed, and even tie in with overcrowding. Overcrowding happens when there is an excess amount of prisoners that aren’t able to be suitably fit into prison since prisons are full and have limited space. Overcrowding messes up the prison norm, because while limited amount of…

Education for Prisoners? Over 2.2 million people are currently incarcerated in the United States (Borowski). Many of these prisoners leave prison with no real-world skills or education needed to succeed in the real world. But first, let me answer a question you may have: “Why should we care about these prisoners? They must’ve done something to warrant prison time!” Actually, about 70% of the US’s over 2.3 million prisoners were convicted of nonviolent offenses (“Prison Education Reduces…

prison life ,events that take place, the behaviour of prisoners and prison guards in and the relationship between the prison guards and prisoners in a prison environment. The authors' hypothesis is called the dispositional hypothesis ,Haney, Banks and Zimbardo (1973).It states that the social institution of prison is due to the nature of the people who are in charge(the guards and other staff)and the nature of the people who populate it(prisoners).Therefore the purpose of the experiment was to…

and psychologists viewed human nature and how environmental circumstances can change a person’s psyche. While the experiment was designed to last two weeks, it had to be terminated after the sixth day due to the rapid increase of abuse against the prisoners by the guards. Though it is now considered extremely unethical by society’s standards today, The Stanford Prison Experiment gave scientists invaluable data on how total authority dominates over a person’s ability to reason and empathize with…

either a prison guard or a prisoner. Out of the 70 applicants, twenty-four were carefully chosen, their roles decided by the flip of a coin. Nine were assigned to be the ‘prisoners” and another nine the “guards; the remaining six were on call if they were needed. And experienced consultants, including a former prisoner,…

Some were also exposed to mustard gas to test its potency. The most cruel and inhuman experiments were designed to prove that Jews were an inferior race. Prisoners that were doctors before the war were forced to perform the experiments on their fellow prisoners. Some tests were on genetics, and others involved taking the limbs off of the prisoners. Himmler’s biggest experimental interest was in…

STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT Stanford Prisoner Experiment Dr. Paul Zimbardo was a physiologist at a Stanford University Professor. He took interest in the nature of prisoners and prison guards. He was interested in finding out if the brutality among prison guards was because of their personalities, or if it was a result of the prison environment. He hypothesized that it wasn 't the nature of the guards that made them brutal, it was the roles that they were expected to play that lead to their…