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    Stanford Prison Experiment

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    Students role-played the prisoners themselves‚ and prison guards. It was conducted in the basement of the psychology department on the Stanford University campus in Stanford‚ California. The experiment turned into an ethical conflict with Zimbardo himself‚ and society. Cruel behavior coming from the guards dehumanized the prisoners themselves‚ generally creating a terrible scene to watch. This experiment was mainly conducted to illustrate the cognitive dissonance theory. Prisoners started to become insane

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    bill of rights is very important basically that’s not only a source it’s a big one for our correction system throughout the United States (Bartollas‚ 2002). The prisoners from our system rights are strictly limited and rights that fall under the bill of rights in addition to the bill of rights must be important to them and restore to prisoners. And not all of them they keep contact to courts and due process of the law (Goldmeier‚ 2011). According to my instructor the main source of correctional law

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    The Lucifer Effect

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    another as the prisoners. The main point of the experiment was to watch the prisoners and see how they reacted to being detained; however‚ when the experiment was conducted it was the guards who were more interesting to study. When looking at the students who were selected to be guards they were no different from the students who were selected to be the prisoners. Yet‚ when they were put in positions of power they began to form to the roll of a guard. They treated the “prisoners” as if they were

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    In Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave‚ a dialogue between two men‚ Socrates and Glaucon‚ reveals that our senses are not completely reliable. Socrates tells the story of a prisoner who has been chained for his whole life‚ able to see only shadows cast on a wall. The prisoner believed that the shadows were reality‚ but when he is released and dragged out of the cave‚ he finds a more important‚ more authentic reality. Socrates arrives to the conclusion that our senses are limited‚ just like the prisoner’s

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    130). The prisoners committed a crime‚ in which they wronged the rest of the public‚ so it is only right for the sovereign power to discipline these criminals. In addition‚ the supermax prison reflects the sort of power relations that Foucault endorses. The prison in itself acts as its own society and represents the rest of society‚ which the criminal wronged. This is shown by prisoners being sent to these supermax prisons by a Prison Administrator and not a judge or a jury2. These prisoners are cut

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    The freed prisoner is often interpreted as a direct representation of a philosopher. After the freed prisoner escapes from the darkness of the cave‚ he witnesses the sun‚ which is seen as a notion of knowledge and enlightenment (Meinwald). Like a philosopher‚ the prisoner learns to set aside their prior beliefs in order to contemplate their new version of reality. After becoming fully acclimated with the nature of the sun‚ the freed prisoner reaches the conclusion that the sun

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    homosexuals‚ and other prisoners or undesirables.The holocaust absolutely destroyed the Jews‚ but luckily‚ some still survived. Today we are still hearing stories about the tragedies that they have went through. The Nazis would send Jews to either concentration camps‚ or even death camps‚ the death camps had to been the worse to go to. The Nazis would even make the Jews and other prisoners walk for miles on called death walks. The Nazis made the Jews and other prisoners walk for miles and miles

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    story‚ Plato establishes a cave in which prisoners are chained down and forced to look upon the front wall of the cave. The two main elements to the story are that of the fictional metaphor of the prisoners‚ and the philosophical tenet in which said story is supposed to represent‚ thus presenting us with the allegory itself. The multi-faceted meanings that can be perceived from the "Cave" can be seen in the beginning with the presence of our prisoners who are chained within the darkness of the

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    Prison Life

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    prison. (Thomas‚ 2) The only reason people know about prisons is because of the media. The news‚ movies‚ and books all contribute to people’s stereotypes about prisons. Prisoners receive three meals a day‚ workout facilities‚ a library‚ as well as other things. People are also given the idea‚ through the mass media‚ that prisoners are free to walk around certain parts of the prison. All of these ideas are cast upon prisons so that people will not be afraid of them. Society has been given the idea

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    Crime and Society

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    interventions for offenders”. (“Queensland Corrective Services”‚ 2006) Formal Goals and Strategies stated within the DCS plan include; Identifying and addressing the increasing needs and demands of diverse subgroups within the prisoner population through enhanced prisoner management practice and Minimising the risk of re-offending through targeted and coordinated intervention services by preparing people‚ who have offended‚ for successful community integration according to their risk and need.

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