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    According to how Plato depicts prisoners‚ I think I am a prisoner. To begin I can say that Plato through his allegory illustrates how we are all prisoners in this world. He does that by comparing our lack of knowledge of what is real and what is not to his prisoners who knew nothing except the shadows of reality‚ and who believed what they saw as real. For example‚ at the beginning when Plato depicts the kind of prisoners he is talking about‚ Glaucon responds by saying that it is a strange

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    Auschwitz - 1940  Auschwitz was not a concentration camp‚ it was a kill camp. They used these camps to kill nuisances‚ and people they did not like. Inside of this camp‚ they killed people in many ways. There were many different types of prisoners. And the prisoners thought the living conditions were worse than death. The Holocaust was a horrible time‚ and in a concentration camp like Auschwitz‚ it made it even worse.   The punishments in this camp varied. The most common punishment was to take away

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    a system that is a collection of registers and reports for the effective management of prisons. This system should contain the modules like nominal roll‚ case register‚ out-gang monitoring and automated release diary generator/report of prisoners qualified for counseling of advisory committee need to be generated on daily‚ weekly and monthly basis 2. System Analysis 2.1 Existing System: In present system it becomes complex for the managing authority to maintain the details

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    a guard or a prisoner‚ with Zimbardo being the warden. The pay was 15 dollars a day; the study was to see how the effects of confinement‚ in prison life‚ with the situational variables in place how this would impact the human behavior. Do the prisons make criminals go more psychotic as the days past? Would good people turn sadists? Within this report we will find out if Zimbardo was able to complete

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    guard and prisoner. Also‚ he wanted to find out why and how social situations can overwhelm people. In order to find study subjects‚ Zimbardo advertised in the paper for healthy‚ male students and offered $15 a day for up to two weeks. His subjects were predominately white‚ middle class students with no history of drug use or a criminal record. The basement of Stanford’s psychology department

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    have authority over the prisoners‚ which is vital as they must be able to enforce discipline. Another advantage of having control is that they can keep an account of offences that prisoners have committed. This will come in useful if the prisoner has adjudication‚ it will also come in usual when reviewing the prisoner. Having the IEP scheme in a prison is a good thing as it encourages the prisoners to behave‚ this will make security and control easier to manage as the prisoners aren’t doing things they

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    narrated by Socrates‚ in which he describes prisoners in a cave looking at shadows which they perceive to be reality. One prisoner escapes the cave and can now see the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners. I believe that the Cave is about Plato’s desire for change in Athenian political structure It metaphorically relates to the death of Socrates: The idea of returning to the cave to enlighten the other prisoners is what Plato believed Socrates was doing in

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    Fake prisoners and fake guards in a spurious jail is a peculiar way to determine roles in society. Philip G. Zimbardo was the mastermind of the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ which was a psychological experiment that determined the roles of members in a society that became a fiasco (“Philip G. Zimbardo” 1). The experiment left emotional and mental scars on mock-prisoner lives. The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) illustrates the way a person changes when a label and power is all of a sudden given to

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    The Andersonville camp was an awful‚ murderous place for Union soldiers to be held prisoners in. It was established in Andersonville‚ Georgia by General John H. Winder and nearly 13‚000 men died over the fourteen months the prison had been in operation. These Union prisoners suffered in the nasty condition of the camp and had little to no clothes‚ food rations and medical care. At the end of the Civil War‚ Captain Henry Wirz was questioned in court for committing crimes against humanity and was

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    These three issues cause a lot of problems and frustration in the daily lives of these male prisoners. I will also be informing you about how these issues and how I feel the criminal justice system can improve on these issues. Severe overcrowding is one of the major problem in most prisons. They are so overcrowded that in endangers the lives of the prisoner and officers. Cells originally built for one prisoner‚ now often house two or three men. Judges in the United States have ruled that many prisons

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