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The eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Wolfgang van Goethe is quoted as saying: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”. If Goethe, who died in the early 1800s, could have looked forward a hundred and twenty years to Mao Zedong’s Communist China, he would have doubtless seen his words ring painfully true. Mao’s dynastic rule survived on elimination of any thought deemed contrary to his own. Those who dared to speak out were dealt with swiftly and severely. Yet some people did not believe they were free, and were willing to do risk everything to subvert Mao’s manufactured culture. “The Mao Button”, “Black Walls”, and “Dogshit Food” are short stories that criticize the

“As one of the Red Guards in the middle school, I was given power through Mao to torture and humiliate our teachers, headmaster or anyone we didn’t like. I didn’t know it was wrong. I thought I was doing the right thing to continue the revolution, to fight and win the class struggle”- Zhao, Lin Qing. As a teenager Zhao was a Red Guard in Guangzhou during the Cultural Revolution. When asked what her impression was a member of the Red Guards, Zhao answered with two words: “naïve and senseless”. She refused answering anything more about her experience. She said, “The memories are still too painful to recall.”

Among Zhang Yimou’s characters, we see many people who are subject to constraints on their free will and actions because they are either part of the Communist party or deemed to be

What the researchers found during this study was that both the behaviors and mentalities of guards and prisoners changed. Guards became more aggressive and prisoners became passive. A group of five prisoners had to actually be released from the study because of physical and emotional changes they were experiencing. Those prisoners remaining actually began acting as if they were truly incarcerated. By the behaviors they exhibited they had all but forgotten that they were free to leave at any time and not forfeit the money they had already earned. Guards, on the other hand, actually stayed at the prison longer than they were scheduled and were actually disappointed when the study came to a close while prisoners were very happy and expressed their luck at getting released early. These results clearly demonstrate that it is the environment that contributes to the behaviors observed. Those who were given the role of guard expressed the power and control they had over the prisoners. The prisoners began to become hopeless and bend to the power of the guards.

North Korea’s prison camps are extremely horrifying. A decade later after World War l, North Korea established its own system of prison camps (Szoldra). As same as concentration camps, prisoners were inhumanly punished. Since then, prison conditions in North Korea are horrendous and not tolerated by prisoners as well as their family members and society. North Korea’s prison systems not only frightened the prisoners, but the society as well. Because of the issues generated by North Korea’s horrifying prison conditions have not only been serious problems in history but also today, this issue is being resolve by the collaboration of society.

The society of the prisoners, who endures the

After spending 23 years inside Camp 14, it is pivotal to know the psychology behind political prison camps. Philip Zimbardo, psychologist and professor at Stanford University known for the 1971 Stanford prison experiment, shows particular interest in the “human transformation of good, ordinary people [...] into perpetrators of evil in response to the corrosive influence of situational forces” (Cervenka). The effects political prison camps have on the prisoners is indisputable, but Zimbardo gives further insight into how. In all aspects of history, including Camp 14, it is vital to understand who the perpetrators are. In this case, the only undeniable transgressor is the Kim family. Although guards could be considered perpetrators and often exert their authority to the fullest extent, one cannot assume they came into authority willing as many of them are wary of becoming a prisoner themselves. The diffusion of this blind authority from the government to the guards to the prisoners leaves the guards to do as they please with their power. This power in the wrong hands is deadly. “One of the former guards stated that, “after being deported to a labour camp, they are not treated as human beings anymore, they are treated like animals. We, the guards, screamed at them: ‘You son of a bitch, if you were a pig, at least we could eat

Prison reports have many purposes as their feed backs are taken into consideration most of the time. The purposes of prison reports are mainly to detect the situations in prison and how much of an impact it has on the prisoners within the prison. To some extent it may be noticed that prison reports don’t have many impacts on the prison. Prison reports comprehends many recommendations and most of them are not given enough thoughts to it,.

Both social and economic institutions emerged in Radford’s P.O.W. camps. Social institutions usually describe groups of people coming together in a community, whether that community is large or small. The prisoners under the control of an external force had to find a way to coexist as a community. This community, although a prison camp, still obeyed the laws of their countries military in terms of order and hierarchy. The Senior British Officer and the Medical Officer exerted some control in Radford’s camp to try to create price stability and sought to control over-selling at the detriment of one's health. Although the prisoners did not work for their supplies, they all received an equal share of supplies. The prisoners quickly realized

Specific techniques that were used to bring about the destruction of self-awareness among the prisoners included, physical privation, prolonged interrogation, total isolation from former relationships, detailed regimentation of all daily activities, humiliation, degradation and social alienation by “thought reform” group (s).

The Prison Manufactured by a Dystopian Society Throughout the semester, many pieces of literature was introduced that presented the theme of dystopian societies suppressing their citizens. These pieces ranged from printed books describing fictional characters’ struggles, to a film fabricating a fictional, civil imprisonment of an ignorant man, and even real-world examples of governmental control. All the authors were able to construct this idea of most commonly a government or some sort of controlling body that had total control over the protagonist, and was able to fool the rest of the people around the protagonist. Small indications were methodically placed in the texts to indicate the following: a) the characteristics of the chosen outsider

Pukch’ang concentration camp; I was imprisoned here because I was captured. I have only been here for 1 days but it feels like a lifetime. They work us to death literally; in these dangerous coal mines that cave-in regularly. We are served small portions of rice if were lucky. Most days they force us to eat grass and soil like cows. Lives are lost everyday in this hell on earth. From the coalmines caving in, the malnutrition and the physical abuse I’m surprised I managed to survive even twenty-four hours in this place. Someone needed to end this. Someone had to put a stop to this in humane.

For this Unit I’ve chosen to read Franz Kafka’s In the Penal Colony, a short story about an unnamed penal colony where punishment does not have to fit the crime. Unfortunately, since untold millions of people died in such conditions in the 20th century, plenty of works give us an idea how life was; probably, the first glimpse was given in 1962 by Solzhenitsyn in his One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The physical deprivations—the bitter cold, the perpetual hunger, the inexhaustible exhaustion, and the untreated diseases—were only half of the equation. The other half was the destruction of the human psyche by the application of modern psychology; for example, the notorious reeducation experiment in the Romanian Pitești Prison (Robert &

The policy on Prisoner Communication Services (PSI 49/2011) replaced previous documents including PSO 4400 Chapter 4- Prisoners’ use of telephones and PSI 06/2011 Prisoner Communications Correspondence. It includes further restrictions on the already operating PINphone system and further details on access to email. The document acknowledges that there is a direct correlation between the maintaining of a prisoners’ mental health and their ability to access different modes of communication with the outside world. In the section named ‘Threats to security’ 2.27 it is stated that the governor has the ‘discretion to disallow any correspondence’ with individuals or organisations which are suspected to be engaged in activities which threaten national security. With specific regard to social media and the internet Prison Service Instruction’s 49 of 2011 state that there are only two exceptions as to which prisoners may be allowed to access the internet or social media; ‘educational’ or ‘resettlement purposes’ and only the Offender Safety, Rights & Responsibilities has the authority to remove the unauthorised status of certain sites.

In the film, Shawshank Redemption, the director Frank Darabont introduces a key idea that prison is capable of taking prisoner's power to control their lives, their reputation and morality. The director shows that the prison over powers the prisoners lives too much that the prisoners forget about their selves and the way to control and the way to control their own lives. It is good if the guards over powers the prisoners in order to lead them to teach them justice and morality. However, the director also shows that prisoners see and treat them as animals that they do not have any heart wanting to transform the prisoners into a better person. They only see them as criminals and this reveals how the society sees the prisoners as well. We stereotype that they are only criminals but the society also have forgotten that prisoners are human as