The Prisoner

not define you,” so why should prisoners be punished for life for a mistake they made in an instant? Not every criminal deserves redemption, for some have committed unspeakable acts, but for many criminals the current retribution—consisting of not only a prison stay, but strained relationships and an inability to secure a job, which results in poverty due to lack of income—is too harsh. Added to possible mental illnesses or substance abuse problems, released prisoners become desperate to support…

On the other hand the guards only talked about “problem prisoners” (12). The behavior in both roles provides convincing evidence that one’s state of mind changes even in a mock prison in a matter of days. For example when given the opportunity to talk to a Catholic priest the prisoners referred to themselves as their prisoner number and not their name they also asked to be bailed out not mentioning they were being paid. Guards were away from…

The Stanford Prison Experiment was an experiment based on the roles of people, and how easily people will fall into those roles. The prisoners were stuck in the basement all day for 6 days, and both the guards and prisoners lost their morals and individuality. The act of dehumanization also provided the prisoners with fear, anger, and helplessness. The Stanford Prison Experiment was not a physical genocide, but a psychological genocide. Genocide is the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part,…

display of the Holocaust experience as a prisoner. It reveals the circumstances they lived in, their mind of thinking, and the ways they were treated as prisoners. Similar to Viktor E. Frankl’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning, the movie shows the prisoners searching for a reason for their punishment. They witnessed their family members in pain, their belongings being torn away from them, and their dignity slowly diminishing. For example, one of the prisoners was asked to choose one of his sons to…

county prison”. In the experiment even from the start of the study the prisoners were already inferior towards the guards because they were outnumbered. In choosing the roles…

college students to play the role of guards and prisoners. In the study, he manages to find a group of male college students to participate in his experiment. The students were paid…

Prisoner reentry policy is an issue that has provided several social problems, particularly due to the ineffectiveness of reintegration process after culprits are released from prison. Reintegration process incorporates the involvement of the legislative system and the society to work collaboratively towards providing a favorable environment that help people who have been released from prison to adapt easily. However, this has posed great challenges due to the complexity of the legal and…

In 1971, Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment which tested the behaviors of both prisoners and guards in a simulated prison created by him and his colleagues at Stanford University. In the article written by Dr. Zimbardo, Pathology of Imprisonment, he discusses the process of the experiment and his findings. To begin, Dr. Zimbardo gathered a group of 24 male student volunteers. All of the students that participated in the study received compensation of $15 per day. Each student was…

have to be wary of ”(Goodreads). During WWII, Hitler believed that what he was doing to millions of innocent people was for the good of his nation. This makes him a truly evil character in history. The prisoners of his death factories included the Jewish people, Roma, homosexuals, and political prisoners. Throughout Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, the Nazis use dehumanization to strip the Jewish people of everything that makes them human. The physical tool that the concentration camps hadson its…

into a school and it aided multiple homeless people at a point. Throughout this essay you will be reading things about the prison and how it was ran. You will also be reading about why the prison was important and about some of the most important prisoners…