In the Stanford Prison Experiment and the events with occurred at Abu Ghraib, the guards weren’t trained to be guards of any sort. The guards weren’t given set of rules to of how to detain the prisoners; therefore, they were to be creative in regards of doing their job effectively. In both situations, the guards resorted to sadistic and inhumane forms of torture to keep the prisoners in place. The guards didn’t have any history of psychological problems or violence prior, but it’s shocking what type of measures the guards went to because of their environment and power trip. For the prisoners, they became depressed, psychologically distraught, dehumanized, and powerless.
They are not able to be housed with general population in fear that they will be retaliated against by other prisoners. The inmates in this unit may consist of sex offenders, ex-police officers, child abusers, and even rejected gang members. For these reasons they are put into their own unit for their “protection” from harm that fellow inmates may want to inflict on
Not only is it a violation of the law, policies and procedures, but it puts the safety of all people in the correctional facility at risk. If they are at risk, then the public is subsequently at risk to. Most correctional officer who committed a sexual offend with an inmate is not about looking for a relationships, sometime it about power and control that they have over the inmate , thinking they can treat them any way they want to treat the inmates(Davis 2012). For the inmates they look at it at as a game, because they have nothing but time, 24 hour 7days a week to study a correction officer to figure out their work habit, weakness, for example if they married, have kids or anything about their life. Once they fine this out they tell her what she want to hear like your hair look good, how beautiful she look, he tell her whatever he think she want to hear.
Society today looks at prisoners as people who have committed crimes against society itself and even though that is the case, where in there does it say that once a person becomes incarcerated that they are no longer considered an American citizen. Being an American citizen grants every person to have rights under the Constitution. From the beginning forefathers never stated that once a person commits a crime that they are no longer an American citizen, nor did they state that once incarcerated their rights were no longer theirs. While the idea is to protect those who work in prisons and those who are incarcerated from any kind of violence, prisoners still have very little basic rights. “Hostility breeds violence, and violence breeds fear” (Hallian, 2005, p.10) When prisons take away basic human rights, they begin to see chaos and violence and where in that is it making prisoners better or rehabilitated.
Many of these people chose a life of crime because they could not make a living and provide for themselves in any other way. This may be due to lack of education and lack of skills. When we choose to lock someone away without offering them any kind of rehabilitation all that we have accomplished in the end is that we have taught this person how to waste sixteen hours a day. We lock these people up without teaching them any skills
After an additional brutal assault by the Sisters almost kills Andy, Bogs is beaten and crippled by a prison guard. While this is just a movie, it highlights some of the dangers posed to inmates from other inmates. This is unfortunate but prison guards have no way of controlling or preventing such actions from occurring, this kind of activity has been going on in prisons since ancient times. It is not about having sex, it is about dominating the other prisoners, the bigger, and tougher you are the more sex you can
It is impossible yet inside our prison walls this is a very common thing to happen. Prison officials make confused, angry, and psychotic individuals horde into a six-by-ten cell. (Pettiinico, George. 31) People who commit crimes are the product of society. They are a tell tale sign which demands reform.
The Eastern Penitentiary opened in 1829 was built with isolation as the key goal. The prisoners were kept separate and the holding cells were built with this goal in mind. Current prisons are so over crowded that prisoner’s sleep on mats on the floor and the rooms are usually filled to their maximum capacity if they don’t already exceed their capacities. This difference between penitentiaries in 1829 and modern day establishments shows the shift in beliefs from punishment and rehabilitation to modern day punishment without the chance for rehabilitation. The privatization of prisons by large corporations has both fueled this issue as well as helped resolve some of the system’s
The realistic feel of the experiment lead to the "good guards" not standing up to the other guards. Also, fear of the "John Wayne" and being ganged up on by all the guards probably made it scarier to think about standing up, when they would have no one to back them up. In addition, everyone was so deep into their roles, even the sociologists probably wouldn't have helped or done anything at that point. 4. If I was a prisoner, I don't think I could handle it.
This was a case that would warrant such relief in my opinion. Would a jury have chosen to do so? Who knows? I think the fact that jurors should not be able to decide weather a sentence is too harsh because they have no legal training is a valid, what sentence isn’t harsh. Any amount of time away from your family and friends in harsh in my opinion, but isn’t that the reason why we have prison to isolate prisoners so that they will be reformed by missing the outside world.