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    threatened landscape of Kaduna {in mid Nigeria}‚ I have often lamented the fate of prisoners who are stripped of their freedom of movement for specific periods of time {and in some glaring cases of inhumanity of man.. for unspecified and unspecific periods}. My young and then innocent mind concluded that depriving prisoners of their freedom as it presently obtains carries along with it a collateral dehumanization of the prisoners person‚ basic needs and rights that are fundamental to the human being‚ and

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    he divided the candidates‚ 9 guards and 9 prisoners. He constructed the basement floor at Stanford into a correctional facility taking the doors off hinges and replacing them with steel door with bars and cell numbers. Each prisoner was stripped and searched and sprayed‚ the same way as if they were going to a real prison. Each prisoner was given robes to wear with their own prisoner number on the back and on the front‚ and they could only go by prisoner numbers not by name. They also were given

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    people were prisoned in a cave chained their whole life and how a prisoner would act once outside the cave then force back in. Plato believes without having any education‚ one will be blinded to the truth. Blinding people from knowledge can lead them to confusion after realizing the truth. Plato and Socrates talked about an allegory of the cave‚ where people were chained to look straight

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    prison environment and see the psychological and how the roles of the guards and prisoners develop. Zimbardo did this by creating a advertisement in the newspaper and hired two dozen young men who were at first‚ all on the same playing field; all of them had no criminal record‚ emotionally stable‚ normal‚ and were all intelligent and from middle class families. The important part about this is that the role of prisoner and the role of guard were chosen by the flip of a coin which meant that the roles

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    have been chained prisoners for years. These men are helpless in a damp‚ dark cave with only a roaring fire in the background. This fire reflects off the wall‚ allowing for the prisoners to see the shadows of humans and animals passing by. Yet‚ the men can only see the shadows‚ never people as they truly are. One day‚ a prisoner escapes the cave‚ discovering an entirely new reality. As the prisoner is escaping‚ he is blinded by the sunlight out of the cave. Once adjusted‚ the prisoner sees the world

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    were used to bring about the destruction of self-awareness among the prisoners began placing the prisoner in to a cell with four of more inmates. Where his cellmates would harangue the prisoner. Physical and mental abuse in the form of beatings and humiliation‚ this would happen 24 hours a day for weeks or months a time. If a prisoner displayed particular resistance to the transformation‚ physical restraint that left the prisoner at the mercy of the other cellmates for basic physical needs such as

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    there are two prisoners and the police decides to sentence them by asking. Each prisoner has two choices. Stay silent to plead guilty himself or betray the other prisoner. The punishment for each situation shows in the chart. | Prisoner B stays silent | Prisoner B betrays | Prisoner A stays silent | Each serves 1 year | Prisoner A: 3 years Prisoner B: goes free | Prisoner A betrays | Prisoner A: goes free Prisoner B: 3 years | Each serves 2 years | What will the prisoners do? The choice

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    crime. Prisoners could often feel like this‚ as there are constantly criminals in their surroundings‚ Often groups of gangs‚ etc. | Social Contact | Interacting and spending time with people on a regular basis. | Without social contact‚ people cab feel lonely and isolated. Not having people spend time with can cause people to become stressed‚ as they would have no one to talk to about their issues. | In a care setting such as a prison‚ social contact could be very important as a prisoner could

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    The returning prisoner is wanting to tell the other about there being another better world out there than just the cave. The newly educated of the outside cave‚ Socrates says “when he remembered his old habitation‚ and the wisdom of the den and his fellow-prisoners” (202) that being the main reason for the prisoner to return. The thing that prevent this individual from tell the others‚ the prisoner has been so use to the outside world the prisoner was blinded due to the change in

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    Cave Allegory

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    first. The allegory of the cave begins with prisoners at the bottom of Socrates’ cave. These prisoners are bound there‚ unable to move their necks and legs. Behind them is a fire providing the only source of light for them‚ but they cannot see the fire. Between the prisoners and the fire is a wall‚ where there are people that hold up all different kinds of artifacts above it to cast shadows against the wall in front of the prisoners. The prisoners would suppose that the shadows passing in front

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