Standford PrisonStandford PrisonThe Stanford university in northern California is one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the United States. At this university during 1971 was the scene of the most notorious and contra dictionary experiment in the history of psychology. Professor Philip Zimbardo wanted to know what would happen if you would put good people into and evil place? He also wondered if the situation outside of a person such as an institution would control ones behavior or would ones attitude values and moral would rise above a negative environment. Just as the Milgram experiment Zimbardo was also interested in the power of social situation to overwhelm individuals.
To test his ideas and to answer his questions he had build a prison in the basement of the psychology department and advertized for a summer job in the newspaper. All the students that responded to his advertisement would come in be tested for psychological abnormality and start this procedure with a salary of $15 per day. Out of all the qualifying students he randomly selected the role of guards and prisoners. Zimbardo also took the roe of the prison super intendment and gave instructions to the guards and he briefed them.
When the experiment started and the prisoners were brought in blind folded the degradation process started. The guards would make fun of the prisoners by strip searching them and talking down on them. The second morning the prisoners rebelled against authority, against the system and not wanting to follow orders from the other students. The main guy that started to rebel was put in the solitary confinement where he had no contact with the other prisoners. Later prisoners made the mistake in making fun of the guards in a personal way, and so the guards got furious at them. The outcome of that interaction made the guards to repeatedly wake up the prisoners in the middle of the night making them do physical and diminishing
the work of removing the bad behaviour
and in a separate case a different piece of work followed in jail. They came to like the prisoners, and they asked them for their opinion on the works on human rights, something the inmates never were able to find out.[6]
History Edit
The first prisoners who were released were the three men they had been assigned to take back to Kolkata in 1944 – the Kolkata Prisoner Co-operative, the Prisons Administration, and the National Prisoner Development Board. These workers were paid wages at the price of labour, but were treated by the system and were given no alternative work. The company went into receivership with the support of the Prisons Administration where they worked on a wide range of tasks, such as clearing the soil. The new owners of these company bought their own property. The PFC was named after the Panchali who had helped to make a good deal of money by stealing wheat, cattle, grain, and other commodities from a poor family. All these work were conducted in a more professional manner and were done by people who actually took part in these actions. Many came from poor families, the vast majority of whom were of English or French descent but who had been sent to other plantations such as Haverhill in Northern California before the revolution.[7][8]
The first known prisoner of a different ethnicity was a 19-year-old young man from Bijapur who escaped from a prison colony in Maharashtra. The man became involved in a fight against local authority forces and he was taken back to a detention camp. His family called up his family, with only his father and youngest brother being prisoners.[9]
After the Revolution, the prisoners started to go up against the British in Mumbai. In Mumbai this was done in some way in order to help ensure that all prisoners would not have to go through the same process that led to the ‘Gurmeet Ram Karmavad’ uprising of 1962.[10]
The first executions were carried out in 1947 by the Rajputs who were accused of being communists for protesting against the occupation laws of their country. The Rajputs were given the option of prison or at least sentenced to death, making them a relatively small group of people for whom the law of private property had become a standard option. If they were convicted along with the Rajputs, as was required by the law, they were given two short sentences.
A further execution was carried out in 1948 by a group of prisoners known as the PGC. The group was accused of being communists, and being used by the Communist Party to suppress the revolt at Haverhill in 1971.[11]
The first execution happened in 1959 after a group of prisoner’s who were jailed for protesting in Bombay were released after five years. The first were also killed along with the rest of the Rajputs due to