On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:33:18 -0500 "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
> I don't know how representative the Prison Guards at Pontiac are, but
> I
> suspect that for the most part it's hard to find a group more
> reactionary
> and racist than prison guards. Prisons are to some extent structured
> to
> force the guards into situations in which, if a guard is "liberal"
> to begin
> with, he/she rapidly becomes Exhibit A of the Mugged Liberal
> Syndrome.
> Another instance of the way in which structural racism generates
> personal
> racism, NOT the other way around.
We might want to keep in mind the results of the famous Stanford prison experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment), as well as the even more famous Milgram experiments.
There are decades of research in social psychology that backs up Carrol's point.
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math
>
> Carrol
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> Joanna wrote:
>
> >I'm not sure if prisons don't help local economies. I used to live
> in a
> prison town (Plattsburgh). Most of the guards there used to have
> manufacturing jobs, so if they could not have gotten prison jobs,
> they would
> have starved.
>
> But overall everyone loses:
>
> http://realcostofprisons.org/
>
>
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