Once the US troops took over Iraq they reinstated the prison and this time they held Iraqi rebels and terrorists. After some time media attention turned to the Abu Ghraib prison once again. It was found that pictures had been sent to the media to show the Iraqi detainees being tortured by the US army personnel. There was an international outcry and the soldiers involved in the abuse were investigated and court-martialled. Public opinion suggests the US army had been brutal toward the prisoners and were abusing their power rather than doing their job as being normal soldiers.
After selling their lies and plans for the war to the America people, congress had given President Bush carte blanche to bring justice to those who caused pain and destruction on American soil. Abu Ghraib Prison, also known as Baghdad Central Prison, became the U.S Army detention center for captured Iraqis. “For decades under Saddam Hussein, many prisoners who were taken to the Abu Ghraib prison never came out. It was the centerpiece of Saddam's empire of fear, and those prisoners who did make it out told nightmarish tales of torture beyond imagining – and executions without reason.” (Abuse of Iraqi POWS by GIs Probed, 2004) In 2004 rumors began to surface, regarding the abuse of prisoners held by the U.S army. Initially the U.S media expressed little interest to the accusations, until photographic evidence emerged, exposing the violation of the prisoner’s human rights.
In the Abu Ghraib prison scandal of 2004, Iraqi prisoners were interrogated where accounts of psychololgical, physical and sexual abuse, including torture, rape and homicide. This “form” of interrogation was practiced my U.S. military police at the prison. Although the solders are responsible for there actions they where under strict orders that went against the Geneva convention conduct of war. When the scandal surfaced the U.S. government denied all knowledge and participation and blamed the solders. After comparing the Abu Ghraib schandle and the Milgram experiment its easy to see that the government had a big roll in influencing soilders.
The first issue revolves around sexual attacks or abuse that remains prevalent in correctional facilities. After being sure that correctional facilities are dominated by sexual injustices, advocates embarked on a mission of creating awareness on the prevalence, massiveness, growth and epidemic prison rape that continue dominating in detention facilities, jails and prisons. Activists referred to research findings establishing that, in the United States alone, ten percent of 1.8 million prisoners are victims of this unlawful act. The second issue id the cruelty at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib correctional facility. When these abuses took place at this prison, human rights activists cited human rights abuse.
When the revolution was going to its peak Trujillo's regime started to imprison people who were part of the revolution along with jailing revolutionaries were killed and suffered forms of torture. In the book it shows how he got to power and stayed in power. He did it by having a radar on nearly every person in his country. People would be scared to talk bad about him anywhere they went beyond their home. Even then Trujillos secret police could send his men to spy on a specific family or neighborhood.
In 1960s America there were many concerns about the treatment of prisoners by prison guards. Many complaints were made by prisoners of violent and brutal attacks by the guards that were meant to be protecting and caring for them. Zimbardo wanted to find out exactly what made prison guards behave in this way, and in particular was it the situation they found themselves in (referred to as situational factors) or the personalities of the guards (referred to as dispositional factors). In other words, did the guards behave violently because the rigid power-based social structure within the prison made them behave that way (situational), or because they had aggressive and sadistic personalities that led them to choose to become prison guards (dispositional)? Zimbardo aimed to investigate the difference between situational and dispositional factors in social roles by creating a mock prison in the basement of Stanford University.
Federal Prison Comparison CJA 234 August 15, 2011 Federal Prison Comparison This paper will compare, contrast, and describe the prisons to which the following individuals were all convicted of federal crimes and sent to serve the sentences at a federal prison. Martha Stewart, Ivan Boesky, Michael Millken, Manuel Noriega, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, Al Capone, and John Gotti. Martha Stewart was convicted and charged in 2004 for her role in the well time stock sale. The charges included conspiracy to obstruct justice, lying and giving false statements to investigators. She was imprisoned on October, 2004 at The Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia, which is a minimum security facility.
The article, “Ottawa calls meeting with Libyan diplomats to discuss reports of torture” focuses on the assaults and forms of torture in jails that have been reported by the United Nations and international rights groups. It states that Canada is “very concerned about these allegations” and that “we will be raising these concerns through official channels in Ottawa and Tripoli”. As many as 60 makeshift prisons holding 8000 detainees have many detainees that are subject to torture, extrajudicial executions and rape of both men and women. Doctors Without Borders suspended work in prisons in Misrata due to widespread torture and have treated 115 people including those with cigarette burns, bone fractures, tissue burns from electric shocks, and
The Dark Secrets of Torture Since September 11, 2001 America has been put under the spotlight. For the past 8 years we have watched, read, and heard about the “War on Terror”. We put our name in history when pictures and video footage made its way to the media of American soldiers torturing prisoners of war. We then were faced with the reality of torture being committed within our own military. Armed forces were being trained to torture prisoners without leaving any evidence that a crime had been committed.
In Nazi Germany the police were allowed to arrest anyone they suspected to be a threat to the party and anyone who openly opposed Nazi in public would be tortured, even to death. The SS largely helped Hitler to eliminate political rivals and was loyal till his death compared to the army and without such support, Hitler would face serious political challenges and lose much public support. The propaganda also played an important role in helping Hitler advertising his political ideology and ideas. The Nazi propaganda department was led by Joseph Goebbels, a Ph.D. in philosophy. Radio, newspapers, magazines, books, theatre, films, music and art were all supervised.