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A 7 page review of how physical environment can affect prisoner psyche. This paper compares the intent and outcome of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment and the real life horrors of Abu Ghraib. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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are held captive adapt in a diversity of ways to that captivity. The thesis can be presented that the physical circumstances in which an individual is (or has
been) imprisoned can impact the psyche in such a dramatic way that it can, in fact, result in extreme behavior on the part of the prisoner. In some cases,
in fact, these impacts can keep the individual imprisoned mentally well past the point where they are no longer physically confined. In others, they can result in the prisoner
providing information that might have not been obtainable through more commonly accepted means. To support this thesis, this paper will explore the psychological literature and the techniques utilized at
Abu Ghraib, the Guantanamo Bay prison camp where al Queda and Taliban detainees have been held by the US government. The circumstances that have recently been unearthed at Abu
Ghraib, of course, are now emerged in a national scandal, a scandal where the US government has been put into a position of having to justify its actions. Despite
review by the new Baraq Obama administration, however, the affairs at Abu Ghraib are still considered outside federal court jurisdiction because "the prisoners are noncitizens being held in the course
of military operations outside the United States" (Savage, 2009). The professional psychological literature is replete with accounts of how physical conditions
can affect a persons behavior. One of the more interesting of the adaptations that prisoners have been known to make is what is referred to as Stockholm Syndrome, a
behavior so named after it was observed among those that had been held captive for five days in 1973 after a failed bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden in 1973.
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