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    other to be prisoners. All student knew that no one is criminal there and they knew it was an experiment so they could leave whenever they wanted to. .Every volunteer were paid fifteen dollars a day. Zimbardo took a role of prison supervisor and announced that everybody must follow law and order.…

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    the first concentration camp to open. When this camp opened for its 1st year it occupied around 4,800 prisoners or more. In Dachau, German physicians performed medical experiments on prisoners. While the experiments continued, prisoners also died for different reasons. As I said a lot of people died but a few survived this tragedy. Years later, after the American soldiers liberated the prisoners, the camp was set up as a memorial site. Imagine how Hitler convinced millions of people to join his…

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    The four concepts chosen to be discussed in this chapter are Prisoners Who Use Drugs, Aboriginal Prisoners, Women Prisoners, and Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Prisoners. Drug use is one of the main reasons individuals are put into the prison system. Four out of five prisoners have a significant drug abuse history. This alarming percentage shows how often drugs are involved in the incarceration of many inmates from all walks of life. Although prisons are supposed to be a secure and closed…

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    gulag camps. This by far is the most impactful way to showcase the failures and actions of a regime such as Stalin’s. We as the audience see that guards, motivated by fear, beat and assault prisoners, something that is absent in the satirical text of Animal farm. We can also see the horrid conditions the prisoners are kept in, as well as the sparse food that they are given. We see that to survive, humans must surrender all dignity. Consequently, proving that realism is more effective in…

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    Rehabilitation In Prisons

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    penitentiaries, they serve as the voice of authority as they ensure the security and well-being of prisoners. The job of a correctional official is to stop a violent conflict and ensure order within the prison walls and also to support opportunities to rehabilitate prisoners. Rehabilitation is one of the most important parts of our criminal justice system because it is a program that will allow a prisoner to learn a skill to survive once they are out of prison or use a skill for a job while in…

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    least cared for and overlooked - prisoners. No one wants to bat an eye or reach out them. They are the ones that hurt the people and harm the other parts of society. People are well aware that they are privileged to have freedom in many aspect of their lives, but acknowledge that when those privileges are not used wisely they should be banished of all that they had and earned. Prisoners will always have the worse reputation in society, but the worst of the worst prisoners will be told that they…

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    taking on the roles as either a prisoner or prison guard. Many people responded to the ad sent out in the local paper looking for volunteers. They “were given diagnostic interviews and personality tests to eliminate candidates with psychological problems, mental disabilities, or a history of crime or drug abuse.” (The Story :) Of the 70 who responded 24 were chosen, all were male, educated, and physically and mentally healthy. To choose who was either a guard or prisoner a coin was flipped.…

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    and his fellow prisoners witness others getting punished and they learn from other people mistake’s or their own to keep themselves out of trouble. The “Camp Commandant” and “Disciplinary Officer” (32) make rules that the prisoners have to follow and when rules are broken there will be consequences. These consequences are not punishments that people get as a child where they are “grounded”. They are life threatening punishments that are meant to inflict fear and render the prisoners inhuman. The…

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    snowed in at your house. Initially, you enjoy the relaxation, sleep, and peacefulness until you develop cabin fever and mild claustrophobia. Now imagine how you would feel after spending months, or even years trapped in this environment. That is what prisoners endure when they are placed in solitary confinement. The only difference is that they are trapped in a windowless concrete room. Since 1980, the number of incarcerations in America has more than tripled and the amount the nation spends to…

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    Prison Culture

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    determining the onset and severity of HCV in prison by influencing the resources prisoners have to manage health. Prison is a community organized whereby prison culture operates to govern prisoners’ behaviour; risk or health-seeking. A social hierarchy regulates prison operations with convicts being the overseers. c In addition, the prison population is composed of inmates who differ greatly from convicts. c Convicts are prisoners who don’t participate in self-help programs or feel the urge to…

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