The Prisoner

millions of innocent people perished under the dehumanizing Nazi rule. Prisoners placed in concentration camps experienced extreme acts of brutality, causing them to perceive themselves as less than human. In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, recalls his time spent in an infamous concentration camp. Wiesel describes the dehumanizing methods which are used to degrade and annihilate countless prisoners. Overall the prisoners are stripped of their humanity and virtue, causing…

more prisoners than any other country. According to Schmalleger, he states “The incarceration rate for state and federal prisoners sentenced to more than a year has reached 500 prisoners for every 100,000 U.S residents” (2014). This is one out of every two hundred people in the United States. It is given that this number will continue to rise as the years pass. However, if the criminal rates are dropping then why are criminal rates climbing? Prisons are an industry that needs those prisoners to…

“The first stop on Keiley’s [a prisoner] journey north was Point Lookout Prison on a spit of land on the land on the Maryland Shore between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay” (Gourley 40). The way a person would get to Andersonville depended on how far away a person was captured…

Plato’s cage creates an image of prisoners seeing shapes of reflections from their controller. The prisoners are seeding things they believe to be real life. The prisoners can only believe what they see and are told in this cave. What the prisoners fail to realize is that the shadows they see are not the real world but the images of the people holding them captive. The reading speaks about what the prisoners are exposed to and what the world really is. The lesson to be learned from the reading…

was a labor camp designed to punish political prisoners and enemies of Adolf Hitler. Dachau was a model for how other concentration camps should operate under Nazi Germany. Through intense labor and strict regulations, prisoners were taught to obey authority. Dachau was created to enforce compliance with the Nazi regime. Unlike the death camps that focused on extermination, Dachau was a labor camp where the main goal was to punish political prisoners. Heinrich Himmler was an officer in…

It was common knowledge for the result of the would-be-prisoners’ train journey means: death. Many of the prisoners mourn the night before departure. The next day, the Jewish prisoners are crowded into a freight train like animals. On the train, the prisoners learn they're going to Auschwitz. The people on the train are cold, hungry, and above all, thirsty. After many days, the train comes to a stop, and the prisoners are ordered out by German officers. This experience is vastly contrasted…

students to reflect the average individuals in society. Twenty-four college students who took part in the experiment were randomly assigned their role as guards or prisoners. Zimbardo also spent a great deal of time with the details of the prison such as the appearance and the cells. the uniforms of the guards, and the entry process for the prisoners on the first day. All of these components were planned by Zimbardo to create the most realistic prison environment. The experiment was done in…

The Funding of Rehabilitation Programs in the Federal Prison System of America and Their Effect on Prisoners Prison rehabilitation can be defined as the re-integration into society of a person who has been convicted of crime, to counter habitual offending, also known as criminal recidivism. (Rehabilitation Center., n.d.) These rehabilitation programs can take the form of educational, artistic, recreational and drug abuse programs. Many prisons in the U.S. don’t fund a substantial quality of…

first concentration camps came about in 1933, music has been inflicted among the prisoners or Jews. The prison guards require the prisoners to sing while being punished or while they marched or worked. The prisoners who did not know the lyrics, sang too loudly, or did not sing loud enough were all beaten savagely. The reasoning behind making the prisoners carry out these actions are in an attempt to teach the prisoners a from of discipline, but to also humiliate them, and to make fun of them. …

(2016) stated that prisoners arrived in their small cells with bare walls, barred doors and windows blindfolded, and then stripped naked, dispossessed of their personal possessions, given prison clothes comprised of a smock with their number written on it, no underclothes, a tight nylon cap and beddings, and were called only by their prisoner numbers. This process referred to as the deindividuation or loss of individuality, was to make the prisoners feel anonymous as the prisoners can only be…