This experiment took place at Standford University's Jordan Hall in the summer of 1971 by psychology professor Dr Philip Zimbardo, Billy Crudup, who didn't seem to quit realize what he was getting into. That in order to see the effect on both inmates and prison guards that being locked up behind bars could do to them. Given $15.00 a day to participate in this study and those in it divided by lot between the inmates and guards it at first looked like a harmless experiment and easy money until those in charge-the prison guards-started to throw their weight around at the expense of the helpless prisoners. It wasn't long that a number of the inmates cracked up under the pressure with the prison guards acting far worse then any of the crimes that the inmates, who in fact were innocent collage students, were accused or involved in the study.
It was the captain of the guards Chris "John Wayne" Archer,Michael Angarano, who really went overboard in his actions against the helpless inmates treating them worse then inmates are treated in any major or minor US prison.That in fact had Dr. Zimbardo, in order to prevent himself and the collage from being sued into bankruptcy,halt the experiment after just five days of torture. As for the inmates they were left traumatized to the point where they had to seek out professional, at the collage's expense, help to overcome what they were forced to go through.
It was in fact the captain of the guards "John Wayne" Archer who suffered the most damage to himself in how he acted toward his fellow human beings. A decent and likable fellow at first Archer when given total authority over his "Victims" that showed just how anyone under the same circumstances can act when given the chance. Which explains the actions of many of those in power, in law enforcement and in politics, that we see on TV and read about in the newspapers every day. It's not just the power but the destine for their victims, whom they feel are and treat like dirt or even worse, that leads those like "John Wayne" Archer to act they way that they do: Not in meeting out justice but in satisfying their own deep and dark feeling and emotions about how their brand of justice should be carried out against those that they feel so justly deserves it!
It was the captain of the guards Chris "John Wayne" Archer,Michael Angarano, who really went overboard in his actions against the helpless inmates treating them worse then inmates are treated in any major or minor US prison.That in fact had Dr. Zimbardo, in order to prevent himself and the collage from being sued into bankruptcy,halt the experiment after just five days of torture. As for the inmates they were left traumatized to the point where they had to seek out professional, at the collage's expense, help to overcome what they were forced to go through.
It was in fact the captain of the guards "John Wayne" Archer who suffered the most damage to himself in how he acted toward his fellow human beings. A decent and likable fellow at first Archer when given total authority over his "Victims" that showed just how anyone under the same circumstances can act when given the chance. Which explains the actions of many of those in power, in law enforcement and in politics, that we see on TV and read about in the newspapers every day. It's not just the power but the destine for their victims, whom they feel are and treat like dirt or even worse, that leads those like "John Wayne" Archer to act they way that they do: Not in meeting out justice but in satisfying their own deep and dark feeling and emotions about how their brand of justice should be carried out against those that they feel so justly deserves it!