The Prisoner

Summarize: The author, Sarah Dover, urges the point that all prisoners deserve basic human rights. The idea is achieved through the use of Hamilton jail as an example. Dover claims that these prisoners’ voices are being silenced by the prison guards “are not working”. She claims that people that are treated the worst are the ones that have not yet been proven guilty. It is quite obvious that she is in favor of basic rights for prisoners. Dover ends her letter by claiming that human rights…

Zimbardo, P.G. (1973)). This experiment took form within a model prison created in the basement at Stanford University to discover the variables found in prisons that can lead to aggression in people, i.e. guards and prisoners. The hypothesis explored was that ‘guards’ and ‘prisoners’ would react in different ways and their behavior and state of being would differ from each…

explaining the philosophical view on reality versus belief and the process someone undergoes to achieve enlightenment. The reader is brought into a philosophical conversation between Socrates and Glaucon where it is told that inside a dark cave there are prisoners, “…human beings living in a underground den…here they have been from their childhood…theirs legs and necks chained so they cannot move…

What were concentration camps? They were like a prison that the Germans build to keep the Jews inside of. They would kill them, put them to work, and make them suffocate with gas. Concentration camps were prisons that had millions of prisoners who got sick easily, and who the Germans made work like slaves in 42,000 camps and would force them into the showers to be gassed. Americans who found the camps thought they were terrible. Concentration camps were like prisons. According to the passage,…

In World, War Ⅱthere were many concentration camps but one of the biggest and most populated was Auschwitz. It was built by the Nazis in Poland. Auschwitz It was first constructed to hold polish politicians. The first exterminations of prisoners began in 1941. Adolf Hitler was the German dictator. He ordered that the Polish leadership be destroyed. In addition to the Polish leaders, he also wanted to destroy the Jews, prostitutes Romans, and the mentally ill. At the beginning of World WarⅡ…

an enhanced comprehension of the tension and conflict between military prisoners and their guards (“Stanford Prison Experiment,” 2015). In this infamous psychology experiment, participants were arbitrarily allocated to the role of prisoner or guard: prisoners stayed in the cells of a Stanford University basement while the guards worked eight-hour shifts. The guards developed authoritarian and draconian manners; the prisoners were cruelly treated and pitted against each other. This experiment…

it was like to be a prisoner of the Nazis during the holocaust. The novel shows the various threats faced by the prisoners and how the prisoners coped with the threats in different ways. Wiesel and his father were both held in the same camp and they were constantly being deprived of necessities, being watched by the Nazis, and treated very poorly by the Nazis. Wiesel portrays the emotional, psychological, and physical threats that all the prisoners faced and how each prisoner must embrace and…

1719 state prisoners, 102 federal prisons, 2259 juvenile correctional facilities, 3282 local jails, and 79 Indian country jails in the U.S. territory. Between 1990 and 2009, the number of incarcerated inmates in private facilities increased by more than 16 percent. The question is, are for profit prisons effective? Well, I say no, private prisons are not effective, because they cost more, the prisoners don’t get the medical attention they need and there is more violence between prisoners and…

afterwards.3 The first prisoners arrived in 1861 in December with a total of 120 men, by May 1,400 men occupied the new prison. During the beginning period of inmate arrivals, soldiers had enough space and supplies provided to survive in relative comfort in their new surroundings. The men play a vary of physical exercises and spent most of their time writing and other means to pass the days in confinement. It wasn’t until the fall of 1864 when the Union stopped the exchanging of prisoners that…

in all were brutally murdered. It was estimated that about 1.5 million people were taken in as prisoners at that time. (Key Dates, Aug 2015) These prisoners were treated ruthlessly, as they were forced into manual labor with severe conditions, deprived of food and were quarantined in unsanitary conditions. In result of being treated like ruthlessly, the number of lives slowly decreased. When the prisoners arrived at the camps they were immediately separated from their families and grouped…