In the death camps, the officers change the prisoners names to numbers, taking away the last thing that the prisoners could still use to remember the past, for they stripped them of every possible memory of earlier happiness. There is a great deal of scepticism among all of those who are in the camps, for they hear of such terrible things but do not take them to heart because of the level of craziness, they do not think that humans are capable enough of doing such harm to other humans in their right mind. Many actions of depleting the human dignity among their prisoners in One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich were taken from those in the German concentration camps. The prisoners in the Russian labor camps were treated horribly, having to follow strict orders. Only when the human body is put under such conditions, does it focus only on daily survival of oneself, which is exactly what the leaders of
You piss. When we say you piss, you shit, when we say you shit. You got that you maggot dick motherfucker? !”This Quote illustrates the authority and power the prison guards hold over the prisoners and the destructive nature of it. Laurie and the few individuals that refused to co-operate with “the wave”, found their voice through the school newspaper.
A few things that I think are unjust in the book were Tom Robinson’s trial and the teachers. Some things that are just in my eyes but were not legal was when Boo Radley killed Mr. Ewell, it was just because he saved Jem and Scout’s lives, but unjust because he did not abide by the legal system. First, Tom’s Robinson’s trial was completely unjust. Tom Robinson was falsely convicted of rape. He was wrongfully convicted by an all-white jury, which at that time, racism was the norm.
For the prisoners, they became depressed, psychologically distraught, dehumanized, and powerless. On the other hand, the guards made the most of their power to maintain prison standards by way of harassment, pornographic behaviors, and mind-bending tactics. In both situations, there was a incident of a rumor of a prison riot with didn’t occurred but aggravated the guards, which lead to more humiliation. The reality of these particular events is the simple fact that what occurred at Abu Ghraib was real, as for the Stanford Prison Experiment was nothing more than a research study on human behavior. When the Stanford Prison Experiment came to it’s end, the guards didn’t receive any form of punishment for their actions.
Fredi Friedbrain demonstrates that he is a very unreliable witness in this case. Mr. Friedbrain is a federal prison inmate on parole who has done about 7 crimes. His statement shows that he personally hates Mr. Toby Fantasia because Mr. Fantasia was the one who arrested him and proved him guilty in his last early 2006, drug case. Mr. Friedbrain has a long criminal record and he is known as a very uncooperative person by many police officers. This again confirms that he is a very untrustworthy witness, particularly in this case.
In an effort to make this experiment as real as possible, the college students were picked up by a police officer, read their rights and formally arrested, while neighbors watched in disbelief. Upon booking prisoners experienced a loss of control for their own lives. These events made them feel dehumanized, helpless and fearful. After prisoners made it to their cell and the study truly began some prisoners were made to feel
Red of course bets on Andy but to his dismay, it was another newbie whose time was short lived. The first night at Shawshank this prisoner sobs out saying he does not belong there and he would not shut up, Captain Hadley beats him to death without any repercussions. Therefore how does a prison rehabilitate prisoners if the guards that oversee them are just as much criminals as them or even worse? This is not the only unlawful killing in shawshank during Andy’s
Najaf gives an example of the conflict existing in the camp, “The husband can’t make the authorities hurry… So he gets into a bad mood, and maybe there’s a fight, maybe somebody hits somebody else with a weapon, a piece of wood, something like that.” This attitude can also be reflected in the riots that broke out in the Villawood detention centre in 2011, where detainees performed acts of self harm and caused destruction and chaos amongst the whole camp. Those individuals were unable to come to terms with their current situation and overcome their hardship like Najaf had; instead they had let their weaknesses bring them down and prevented themselves from overcoming a problem in a constructive
They have been treated very poorly and have and victims of many violent crimes. For example, France in 2006, their government declared that Jehovah witnesses were dangerous people. Therefore, they went to 71 of their kingdom halls used firebombs, shot them down and vandalized them. In India of the same year people went house to house brutally beating Jehovah witnesses with fence posts. The peoples who did this never were charged, however, they Jehovah witnesses were charged with inciting the violence.
The environment that Miss Sun and her students walk into everyday has turned into a prison instead of a learning place. These children are seen as the rejects of society who are physically imprisoned by metal detectors and mentally imprisoned by their personal surroundings. The educational system fails children like them. Although Malcolm X High isn’t a real school, the problems that they face are present in many public schools. Due to all of these reasons the students in the play feel as though they are prisoners; Jerome: We treated like convicts Ms Sun: How do you mean?