Imagine the experiment which college students were randomly assigned to roles of prisoners and prison guards. They were assigned to the same uniform, cells, and used numbers instead of names. "The Stanford Experiment", by Philip K. Zimbardo, the college students were to choose to be either a prisoners or guards and then were put into their position. From there they have to do as the guards told them to do. "Prisoner privacy and other civil rights would be violated," they won't have much of privacy and personal space, because they were to do what they been told to do by the guards. Everything they do the guards is right beside them and the cell is a small place to have any privacy. "They might be subjected to harassment, every subject was completely confident of his ability to endure whatever the prison had to offer for the experiment" (349). When prisoner is in prison for awhile without women, his hormones arose and began to harass other guys to satisfy his need. The prisoners have to be able and willing to be harassing in order to contributed the experiment. They have to obey these violations or they can"t participate in the experiment. "Guards must maintain "law and order" in prison, that they were responsible for handling trouble that might break out, and they were cautioned about the seriousness and potential dangers of the situation they were about to enter" (350). These dreadful experimented that these college student experiments surprised me because I feel that they overlook their past, and what the future could hold, but instead they concentrate on the situation alone. This proves that people don't have to be in the jail to be emotionally restricted. .
Once the college students choose the role of the prisoner, they no longer have their rights. They have to have permission to do things the wanted to do. "Prisoners were forced to gain permission from the guard for routine and uncomplicated activities such as writing letters, smoking a cigarette, or even going to the toilet; this draw out from them a childlike dependency"" (350).
