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This 5 page paper looks at prison life after reviewing the Zimbardo experiment at Stanford during the 1970s. Abu Ghriab is discussed. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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they can do and to an extent, that is a prison. Yet, true prison life is usually more than merely having to live with limits. Many citizens are "law and
order" types and judge society and the people in it. They want anyone who violates a law to be punished. Being locked up for certain crimes is something that people
think is a good idea. The public separates the good and bad people. The bad people go to prison and the good people is equivalent to the law enforcement community.
Of course, most people are probably mistaken in this judgment. In recent years, some attention has been given to the fact that police officers have beaten their suspects or
used a firearm, inadvertently killing a suspect. These incidents are considered few and far between. In fact, the NYPD has had officers use implements to sodomize their suspects. It is
true that sometimes situations get heated and officers violate the law. They get angry too. Yet, while it is not justifiable anger, these incidents are perhaps too common to be
considered isolated events. Perhaps it is the system, and not the officers, that is the real problem. Such an idea has been made available through the work of the well
known psychologist Phillip Zimbardo. During the 1970s, he conducted experiments with a mock prison where the behavior of both prisoners and the guards were studied ("The Stanford Prison Experiment," 2009).
In the context of that study, college student volunteers were used ("The Stanford Prison Experiment," 2009). Once the students signed on, they were arrested in their home towns while neighbors
looked on, and they were detained and treated as ordinary prisoners ("The Stanford Prison Experiment," 2009). Anyone who has been arrested would understand that it is a humiliating experience. Even
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