Guards and Prisoners

Guards and Prisoners Why is it that prisoners, while imprisoned and after their release, desperately seek power and chose any means of getting it? The answer to that question lies in the article, “Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison”. The atmosphere of a prison creates enormous hatred of the guards who are violent and sadistic to the prisoners. To find out why such distinctive roles of “prisoner” and “guard” were assumed a …

…it was the oxygen they needed to survive. While those who were given power, became overwhelmed by it and at the same time felt the need to exercise it to it’s fullest capacity. Both the prisoners and the guards, in similar and opposite ways, suffered psychologically from the experiment. This experiment could serve as a basis for helping our prison systems train and prepare the guards better for their jobs, rather than their roles.