The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment

This is a very interesting article. Please read it if you have some 20 minutes to spare. It's about the way prisons change people (everyone involved, including the guards).

This was just an experiment in California that was supposed to last for two weeks, but was so intense that had to be stopped on the sixth day. Go figure, it says that the guys playing the prisoner roles were happy is was over sooner, but most of the guys playing the guard roles, were not.

It makes me sick to think of the poor guys at Abu Ghraib, most of whom are apparently innocent.