Attica Prison Case Study

11. What police procedures are used during arrests, and how do these procedures lead people to feel confused, fearful, and dehumanized?

The mass arrests accrued because of the violation of Penal Code 211, armed robbery and burglary. The suspects picked from their homes, charged, read their rights, were padded and searched. Then were handcuffed and put in the back of the police car driven to police station. At the station the suspects were formally charged and bucket, then put and left in a holding cell blindfolded. They are fearful because they are put in a dark room without any way to escape and became part of the system.

2. If you were a guard, what type of guard would you have become? How sure are you?

If I was I would was a guard I hope to

I would have terminated early when signs of high stress levels on the participants were visible. Such as them forgetting the concept that they can leave at the time and showing signs that they felt institutionalized. A follow up study should have occurred to understand the mind set of all the individuals involved.

15. How can we change our real institutions, such as Attica Prison, when they are designed to resist critical evaluation and operate in relative secrecy from taxpayers and legislators?

A way to change our institutions is to implication more programs that focus on rehabilitation

16. Knowing what this research says about the power of prison situations to have a corrosive effect on human nature, what recommendations would you make about changing the correctional system in your country?

What should be change is the amount of brutality that could exist in the prison outside the prisoners. The punishment fitting the crime, meaning the loss of any privileges should fit any of the rules that they have violated. Also that the prisoners should be treated with dignity and not dehumanized no matter the crime they may have