A Critique of Philip K. Zimbardo's
             Philip K. Zimbardo, professor of psychology at Stanford University, did a two-week experiment of prison life. He wanted to understand more about the process and how prisoners lose their liberty, civil rights, independence, privacy, and the guards gain social power by accepting the responsibility of being a guard.
             The basement of Stanford University's psychology building was converted into a prison. From the ads in the city and campus newspapers there were more than 75 volunteers. The applicants were mostly college students from all over the United States and Canada who were in the Stanford area during the summer when the experiment was being conducted. The participants would earn $15 a day to be a prisoner. This experiment consisted of 10 prisoners and 11 guards. The participants had to be emotionally stable, physically healthy, mature, law-abiding citizens. Each subject had to give a written consent to participate and endure whatever the prison had to offer for the full two weeks. These students were in it for the money and had no idea what it would be like to be a prisoner. The experiment was to see how prisoners would act when they were locked up and had no freedom, because they're watched and told what to do and when to do it. The behaviors of the guards are also part of this experiment. The guards are being monitored to see how they deal with the authority of being a guard. The experiment was based on an in-dept analysis of prison situations, developed after hundreds of hours of discussion with Carlo Prescott ( ex-con consultant), parole officers, and correctional personnel and reviewing literature on prisons and concentration camps. The prisoners wore smocks and nylon stocking caps and they all had to wear their prison number for ID, all personal effects were removed and housed in barren cells. Guards wore khaki uniforms and silver
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