both prisoners and guards in POW camps. Compare the experiences of Australian POWs in German and Japanese camps. During World War II‚ it was a common action for the German and Japanese soldiers to capture Allied soldiers. This meant that the Australian‚ British‚ American‚ Irish and Russian troops were held in prisoner of war camps in less than ideal conditions. Due to the Geneva convention and a different set of morals and beliefs‚ the Germans have been noted to have treated their prisoners of war
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living conditions‚ Mass exterminations‚ and uprisings. The living conditions of the prisoners in the camp were treacherous‚ and prisoners went several days without adequate clothing and food. For example “prisoners did not receive protective clothing and they were constantly subjected to beatings and abuse from the mines civilian staff as well as prisoner foremen” (“Auschwitz/Furstengrube” par.1). When working prisoners were in extreme conditions and did not receive
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are in privately owned prisons (Lee). Private prisons generally have a contract with either the federal or state government to build prisons and incarcerate prisoners. In addition‚ there are 37 states that allow these prisoners to additionally be contracted for labor with companies as big as Boeing or Microsoft. The wages of the prisoners can be as low as $0.17 (Pelaez). These are not conditions expected of one of the most developed countries in the world. However‚ the U.S. has a precedent for
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Buchenwald Concentration Camp The Buchenwald Concentration Camp was a concentration camp that the Germans used for practically labor of the prisoners until they died or were killed by the SS. Hitler who was the Nazi leader wanted all the people that weren’t the Aryan race to die because they were not perfect. “The Buchenwald camp was located in Weimar Germany and was established in 1937. The main camp was constructed in a wooded area in the northern slopes of Ettersburg. Before the Nazi takeover
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that other people might not have been able to gain. This gives his account of his time in a Nazi concentration camp a specific perspective that is seldomly found in other reports. One of the major things Frankl focuses on in his novel is how the prisoner survived inside the camps. While Frankl’s standpoint was that a person needed a meaning in life in order to survive‚ he also describes different aspects of camp live and the human mind that allowed people to cope with and survive the horrors of the
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brought up many ethical issues. One of these was the ethical treatment of prisoners. As the Allied forces pushed into Nazi territory and came upon the concentration camps‚ the true horrors of World War II were seen. Dachau Concentration Camp in Southeast Germany‚ was the first of the concentration camps built by the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ‚ commonly referred to as the Nazi party. At the camp‚ the prisoners were forced to do hard labor and were unjustly executed. The ethical problem
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Daru does not intend to turn the prisoner into the French officials‚ although he had been ordered to. His problematic situation is to either do what he is told‚ or go against and do what he believes is right. However‚ if Daru does the task that is give at hand‚ and does what is asked and expected of him‚ he would have to take the prisoner to the French; but‚ if Daru were to do what he wanted rather than listen‚ he would go against what is asked‚ and let the prisoner go free. The central conflict in
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the opening of the prisons there have been reported stories of torture on prisoners‚ inmates being force fed and due process rights being taken away. In this essay‚ we will examine Guantanamo Bay from the beginnings‚ to the legal issues by reviewing landmark Supreme Court cases‚ to the world wide opinions and finally the future of GITMO. After much research‚ we will review how I came to my belief‚ that the holding of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay is unconstitutional and that the torture must be stopped
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Experiment is another positive example of circumstantial determinants overriding personality. The Stanford Prison Experiment is an experiment designed to determine the effect of a medley of situational variables on the behavior of subjects roleplaying prisoners and guards in a simulated prison environment. In his subsequent novel‚ The Lucifer Effect‚ Zimbardo stated that originally‚ the experiment intended to discern “what people bring into a prison situation from what the situation brings out in the people
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was a super-prison for super-prisoners the prison was outside of the human world it was like another life for people living there. Alcatraz was different from other prisons because‚ it was a prison holded that had the most super-prisoners . This prison was necessary because‚ people were fighting of a lot of of crime wave that season. Then‚ Homer C. Cummings came up with the idea to build Alcatraz and lock bad prisoners and keep them away from the real world. The prisoners
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