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How the Stanford Prison Experiment Worked

Stuff You Should Know

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Prison Reform

The John Wayne guy very much has said all his life since then is that this is what they, I thought they wanted was for me to be a bad guard. So we could prove ultimately that prisons need reform. And that is why he's still complicit because he's still engaged in these acts of genuine cruelty against the prisoners in the study. But he did it because he was recruited in the name of this righteous cause by somebody who was in authority.

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