November 30, 2010

Private Prison Abuses Exposed

Corrections Director fails to recognize that prison guards universally tend to abuse their power over prisoners. Psychological experiments by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/970108prisonexp.html
prove humans abuse their power over others. This prison boss is in denial (or perhaps just ignorant of what he should be aware).


[From article]
Idaho Department of Correction Director Brent Reinke said "The Board of Correction acknowledges that when you put a group of people who have a history of criminal behavior together in one place, it is likely you will have problems. But that doesn't mean we should tolerate them," Reinke wrote.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101130/D9JQDB7G3.html

AP Enterprise: Guards shown watching inmate attack
Nov 30, 5:44 AM (ET)
By REBECCA BOONE

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