Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment
Reading this chapter was quite shocking; I agree with the end statement that no matter what kind of deviant you are or may have become we’re all human and want to be treated as such. I was watching TV the other day, and in a talk show (The Real) they brought up the question if prisoners should be allowed to play video games and 3 of the women, (all but 1), thought no! How could they! They need to be suffering! And only 1 stated what this chapter is practically saying; about how we need to be helping these people rehabilitate. her thought was basically-if it’s a reward and they’ve been behaving -what’s so bad about letting them play video games, when another of the four women barged in saying,” well why can’t they just play basket ball that’s already allowed?”. For me, as human beings, deviants or not, we all have different interests and in prisons that should be ok just as it is outside of prison. Another thing about this chapter was how the guards and prisoners in the test group acted having your name taken from you and giving a number instead can do so many damaging things to your mental health; and with the guards giving some one that kind of power over people will always go to their heads. Humans like power and like war, so for me, even though they may be doing their job- their just as deviant as the prisoners themselves.
necikait 