The Prisoner

regulations on human subjects includes special provisions of certain subjects called special population, juveniles and prisoners. Juveniles as human subjects usually involve the parents or guardian permission and sometimes from the juvenile subject themselves. Prisoners are treated as a special population for other reasons. Because of their ready accessibility to experiments and interviews, prisoners have frequently been used in biomedical experiments that produce serious harm (Mitford, 1973).…

In the “Allegory of the Cave”, one prisoner breaks free from the chains. His curiosity causes him to escape and go to the outside world. When the prisoners are first “ liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light… he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former before was an illusion (Plato 31-36) Since the prisoners were aware of the outside world, they had…

to manipulate someone’s belief and show them a picture which does not really exist in reality? Both in the Matrix and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave it clearly demonstrates that the ‘reality’ can be hampered. If I put myself in place of one of the prisoners, I ask my self that can we be sure that the…

Ginsberg, a Supreme Court Justice, said that “people who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty” (“Inadequate Representation”). Prisoners lacking a good lawyer will inevitably be given the death sentence simply because they cannot get the representation they need. The absence of a skilled lawyer should not be the reason why prisoners are sentenced to…

regarding what to do with the prisoners of war (POW) that were being captured in Europe, Africa, and other places of the World. The United States did not have any POW camps and had not had to retain large number of prisoners in over 100 years. When the United States was compelled to enter World War II following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. They were forced to contemplate this situation. As the U.S. continued with the war, and as they began to capture prisoners they fully realized…

1971 by Philip Zimbardo. This experiment is very well known in the history of psychology due to it's crazy results. The experiment was made to see the reaction of participants who were placed as situational variables. The variables were guards and prisoners. The research experiment took place in the basement of Stanford University. Chosen participants were from a crowd of about seventy undergraduate Stanford students, only twenty-four of them were chosen though. They made sure that the…

There are solutions to deal with prison overcrowding that have been proven to work. These come in the form of “reduction programs”. Most prison population reduction programs are founded on the principles of releasing prisoners as appropriately as possible to make space for new inmates. Furthermore, as quoted from Pitts, Griffin, and Johnson on reduction programs: “Generally referred to as backdoor strategies, prison population reduction usually entails providing early release incentives to…

those, they will be sending back to the jail again”. We need to change parole system. First because they need to live at the place that is assigned to them by the government. I think that is very unfair to the prisoners because the place they are assigned may not help the prisoners to become better. For example, there are some people want to go out from the prison and become better, but because the environment, they commit a crime again and go back to the prison again. There are also…

I believe the differences between Euthyphro and the prisoner are their abilities to accept their faults, being humble enough to reach the summit of knowledge, and a similarity between how important philosophic ideals are in their lives. These two stories involving Socrates deal with a premise of knowing what is true even though the truth is constantly debated. Socrates shares a key similarity with the prisoner as they can both be seen as philosophers as they try to enlighten others even though…

after the town itself. Dachau soon became a model for all Nazi concentration camps in Germany. The camp was primarily for political prisoners, but throughout its 12 years of existence it withheld many other people. The exact number of deaths that occurred at this camp was never known and will most likely stay a mystery since very few (compared to the total of prisoners held) were registered dead. After Germany's loss in World War II, they fell into economic depression. Those in Germany were…