...society views. Plato realizes that humankind can speak and think without any mindfulness of his realm of form. In the myth, Plato likens uneducated people to prisoners chained in a cave without the ability to exercise any mobility. The only thing visible to them is the cave wall and some light fire burning behind them to create some warmth in the cave (Plato & Parker, 2005). A parapet exists between the fire and the prisoners, in which the puppeteers can walk. The puppeteers behind the prisoners clutch the puppets that cast their shadows on the cave walls. However, the prisoners cannot see the puppets but can hear the echoes of objects and see some shadows on the caves wall. The prisoners can hardly recognize the real cause of the shadows and they suppose that the shadows are real. According to Plato, if a different shadow is cast that resembles a book, the prisoners are likely to recognize it in their own language. Thus, in his view, prisoners would be mistaken, since they would be referring to the shadows in their own language that pass through their eyes than the real things that cause the shadows. Plato’s objective was to show that the general terms used in a certain language are not the names of tangible things that we see but the things we can internalize in our minds. Plato shows how humankind should achieve this reflective understanding in their daily life including social judgments. The prisoners in the cave may learn the key features of a book from their earlier...
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...The novel, Survival in Auschwitz, explains Primo Levi's experiences and thoughts during his time in the concentration camp. Levi expresses his sufferings to explain how the prisoners were not treated like people by the Germans. They were de-humanized by stamping each individual with numbers, had harsh living conditions and forcing them away from their families. The actions taken place on each individual were not how people should be treated. The German's goal was to deprive any positive human qualities that the Jews consisted. The easiest way to do so, was to strip them away from their family. "In an instant, our [their] women, parents, and children disappeared. We [They] saw them for a short while as an obscure mass at the other end of...
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...and meeting and the threat with such tactics is beneficial. Debates have been held on where people stand with the United States’ use of Gitmo, and the force they are willing to use to get any information on their enemies. Some debaters discuss why Guantánamo Bay is justified and some disagree with the prison and use evidence of how it is against detainee’s rights, and their values. One debater said, “Continuing operation is immoral to the prisoners being held there.” This statement is strong because the United States has always said no matter your religion, race, or sexual preference that they accept all citizens. “No country should have the capability to lock away those that are deemed a threat, without a fair trial.” The United States has gotten away with it for 14 years, and the U.N. hasn’t started to question it until now. “While some prisoners may have committed crimes that would justify imprisonment, there are no doubt innocent victims that have been wrongly accused.” Mohamedou Ould Slahi claims to be one of those that has been wrongly charged and all of his lawyers and much of the media believe him, his story is very convincing and he seems to be an honest man admitting his mistakes, and taking responsibility. “Torture is a violation of our basic human rights and, in the 21st century, this should never be tolerated, no matter who the person is that is being tortured or the...
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...SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COURSE: BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEM (B.I.S) PROJECT PROPOSAL PROJECT TITLE: INTEGRATED NIGERIA PRISONERS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM DATE: 29/01/2013 PASSPORT NUMBER: SUPERVISOR NAME: SUPERVISOR SIGNATURE …………………………………………. PROJECT TITLE Integrated Nigeria Prisoners Management Systems INTRODUCTION Prisoner identification is an integral part of any prison system, but with so many prisoners lodged in the Nigeria Prisons, the authorities found it increasingly difficult to keep tab on the prisoners, so necessary for an efficient jail system. The primary goal of prison management is to incapacitate inmates while providing rehabilitation and programs; however the goal of maintaining control within the prison system takes precedence over rehabilitation and treatment (Craig 2004, 92S). The activities of the Nigeria Prison’s services in terms of records keeping has for a long time been a huge problem to the service as there are no proper facilities in place to ensure that they are able to store and retrieve information on prisoners very quickly. Prison system models provide conceptual clarity regarding the complex workings of the prison system as well as the strains on and dilemmas of each system (Steele and Jacobs 1975). Record keeping are still done using big old files which have to be shelved once that file is full and then replaced with another and so when the need comes to get information on prisoner’s, they...
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...Prison Inmates claiming millions in tax refund Over the past few years prisoner tax refund fraud has sky rocketed. According to the article - (Prisoners rake in millions from tax fraud, 2013) “In 2010, more than 91,000 inmate returns claimed $759 million in fraudulent refunds.” 1 That figure was more than double from the previous year. How is it a convicted felon who is behind bars still gets to cheat the system by robbing innocent tax payers of billions in tax refunds on an annual basis? This type of white collar crime is easily committed, all that is needed is the use of a computer with internet access and a great deal of time which a prisoner is in no shortage of having. They can educate themselves on how to hack into hundreds of databases that contains people’s personal information including social security numbers. Once that information is gathered they can begin the process of stealing tax refunds they are certainly not due by filing fraudulent income tax forms, sometimes hundreds at a time by using legitimate names and social security numbers, sometimes the names of their inmates, relatives or even people who are deceased. It is the duty of the IRS to fix this problem. This paper will highlight a few cases of inmate tax refund fraud and what measures the IRS has taken and will continue to take in order to protect innocent victims against this type of fraud. Case summaries involving inmate tax refund fraud The following cases are classic examples of...
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...world, which is controlled by the matrix agents just like Plato's prisoner lives in a cave being controlled by the puppeteers. Both Anderson and the prisoner of the cave manage to escape from the world, as they know it and come to know the world as it really is. Anderson, with some help from Morpheus, comes to realize that the life he has been leading so far is nothing but the life of a slave, shaped under the control of the Matrix, protected by the agents. Plato's prisoner comes to realize first that the shadows he is looking at are not the truth, they are just shadows cast on the wall by the people and animals. The characters, simultaneously experience shock and then a feeling of when they first perceive what is real. Neo (the name he assumes after the experience) is able to see how humans are "grown", hooked on wires, an element which symbolizes control just like the chains, which tie the prisoners in Plato's cave. Unlike Plato’s prisoner, who manages to find his way out of the cave without any help from others, Morpheus helps Neo. When Neo is faced with a moment of choice: would he take the blue pill and stay in the world of senses (Matrix) or take the red pill and start his “tumbling down the rabbit hole” and come to know reality as it objectively exists. He chooses the red pill thus giving himself the opportunity to experience the world of the mind, the real world and finds it as mind-blowing as Plato’s prisoner finds the illuminated world outside of the cave. There is no...
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...idea of amassing knowledge and information. There is this revolving idea of automatically believing what someone tells you of an unknown object, just like believing that it is how a crane looks like, the reality of what it is. Additionally, the idea of ignorance plays a significant role in what one thinks is real and what is truly reality. Furthermore, humans are still similar to the prisoners in the Allegory of the Cave, “Suppose the prisoners were able to talk together, don’t you think that when they named the shadows which they saw passing they would believe they were naming things?” (Plato, p. 312) Without any pertaining prior education, the prisoners are left to name the shadows thinking that they are naming things, similar to how students are left to the self-assumption that their creation is what is called an origami. Those these prisoners are forced to break free through the universal forced learning. “If so,” said I, “such persons would certainly believe that there were no realities except those shadows of handmade things”. (Plato, p. 313) Through assigning a name to an object, one can jump to a conclusion of its identity, though that may just be a hinderance to seeing past the shadow and discovering the reality of what it truly is....
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...Rehabilitation Hector Rodriguez Jr CJA/492 December 3, 2011 Professor Jeffrey Newton Rehabilitation When one thinks of rehabilitation they refer to fixing something, such as when you are injured. You get rehabilitation to help you fix or strengthen your injury. When we look at corrections rehabilitation is fixing a person’s mind set. Showing them what is acceptable behavior and what is not. So when we look at this type of rehabilitation we want to reeducate someone to understand that criminal behavior is wrong. Rehabilitation has been around for a while, as early, as the 1800’s in prison. The prison was trying to succeed in showing the prisoners through labor and the use of discipline to show prisoners proper behavior. Early doctors and psychiatrist found that criminal behavior was a disease. They did studies that showed a certain person of a center genetic makeup, height, weight hair and eye color. These findings would be the description of a criminal; it would be found to be false. The true era of rehabilitation from the 1950’s to 1970, in the beginning it was not taken serious and was not part of the curriculum. There was nothing defined to give direction to state facilities and there was no guidance on how to develop a program. The first type of a rehabilitation program was penology; it was a scientific method to punish people. James V. Bennett believes in the individual treatment of criminals in the penal system based on observations and perceptions...
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...savage within all of us. By: Henry Nguyen The good characteristics of a human and the rules that have been set by a higher authority have been put in place in order to restrain the dark desires that lie within us. As David Thoreau once stated “The savage in a man is never quite eradicated”. Instances of abuse of power can be found in the case of Abu Ghraib prison and the Stanford prison experiment. Both of which highlights how, in time of conflict, respect and human rights can be violated under the name of national security. In times on total dominance of another being, the human mind will think differently and act in a way that can deface the rules of society. Just like slavery, although it is banned, if the dominant is to have complete power, is able to force the slave to complete all the commands. The Abu Ghraib prison is an institution where the guards force the prisoners to perform tasks ignoring their opinion and values. The guards had the power to be able to force the prisoners to ‘jerk off’, participate in male orgies and have females strip. All of these acts had pictures taken. Some of the guards who had worked at the prison fled and reported the issue with the media which had gotten public attention and understanding that the acts that were performed are indeed obstructing the laws of society and an obstruction of justice. Parallels to this can be seen in the Abu Ghraib and William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ as there are characters that act in a way which would be...
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...plantation owner. Hernietta lived on the plantation which her grandfather owned until 1942, when she ended up moving to the city in Baltimore with her husband and family. Sadly, Henrietta died in October of 1951at the age of 31 due to cervical cancer; she was buried right next to the place where she grew up in Virginia in an unmarked grave. Her death would be the reason her name became so well known in the scientific community as well as the psychology one. Also why she was considered an scientific heroin due to the great things accomplished b her cells alone...
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...Army Regulation 190–8 OPNAVINST 3461.6 AFJI 31-304 MCO 3461.1 Military Police Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees Headquarters Departments of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marine Corps Washington, DC 1 October 1997 UNCLASSIFIED SUMMARY of CHANGE AR 190–8/OPNAVINST 3461.6/AFJI 31–304/MCO 3461.1 Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees This revision-o o o Establishes a multi-service regulation for all services (para 1-4a). Ensures compliance with DOD Directive 2310.1 dated August 1994 (para 1-4g). Establishes HQDA, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations as the primary Army Staff responsibility for the Enemy Prisoner of War, Civilian Internee and Retained Persons Program (para 1-4c). Establishes a DD FORM 2745, Enemy Prisoner of War(EPW) Capture Tag (para 21b). Highlights Combatant Commanders, Task Force Commanders and Joint Task Force Commanders responsibilities (para 1-4g). Establishes procedures for conducting tribunals (para 1-6). Establishes Public Affairs policy (para 1-9). Establishes policy for EPW held aboard ship (para 2-1b). Updates OCONUS evacuation policy (para 2-3). Establishes the use of Health and Comfort Packs as a temporary substitution for Advance of Pay for short term operations (para 3-4h). Updates procedures for contracting EPW (para 4-22). Combines AR 190-8 and AR 190-57 (para 6-1). o o o o o o o o o Headquarters Departments of...
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...An important lesson that Levi learned, was the value of shoes. In the beginning, as the men stripped, their shoes were torn off, and thrown into a mixed pile. After their were “baptized” they were given broken boots with wooden soles. Levi explained how “death begins with the shoes; for most of us, they show themselves to be instruments of torture…” (Levi, 34). The importance of footwear was great, and decided whether you lived or died. For example, if a prisoner’s shoe did not fit properly, then they are susceptible to getting painful sores or even worse, infections. Causing them to be deemed “unhealthy”. Unfortunately, since there was no cure for ‘dicke Fusse’ (swollen feet), most prisoners, who can not work, end up...
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...up randomly and assigned a certain role; either prison guard or prisoner. After having three students drop out, the groups were split up having 10 prisoners and 11 guards (Zimbardo). In his article, Saul McLeod states "If the prisoners and guards behaved in a non-aggressive manner this would support the dispositional hypothesis, or if they behave the same way as people do in real prisons this would support the situational explanation." According to the description written in Zimbardo's journal, the guards were split up and given 8 hour shifts just as if they were really working at a prison. The prisoners were held three to a cell, plus there was a solitary confinement cell if the prisoners "acted up" (Zimbardo). Zimbardo and his colleagues wanted to make this simulation as realistic as...
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...that there were more humane ways to punish, rehabilitate, and correct the criminal acts. Even though they mixed violent criminals with those who had minor infractions, and mixed men with women; the conditions were still an improvement compared to years before. This soon rubbed off, and other colonies started to incorporate these beliefs. As our nation formed each state began to maintain its own incarceration system (University of Phoenix, 2011). The penitentiary era began in 1790 when the Quakers converted the Walnut street jail to create a more humane way to deal with criminals. There were two different models one was the Pennsylvania system in which prisoners were in complete solitude. The other model was the silent system that was part of the Mass prison era in 1825; this began in Auburn, New York. In this system prisoners could not talk to anyone while...
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...to concentration camps, these horrible camps were stationed all over Europe. One of the main camps in Poland was Auschwitz. Opened in May 1940, it was an extermination camp located in southern Poland in a small town named Oswiecim. The camp consisted of three separate camps not far from one another so that communication could be kept between them. These three camps included: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II–Birkenau and Auschwitz III–Monowitz. Auschwitz I was classified as the base camp where prisoners mainly worked, Auschwitz II–Birkenau was the main extermination camp where prisoners went to die in a variety of ways after being too weak to work, and Auschwitz III–Monowitz another labor camp, which held prisoners who worked at a German chemical factory, IG Farben. The killing methods ranged from being lined up at a wall and shot to being put into ‘showers’ that realized a toxic gas. Once the prisoners were dead, they were then burned in the crematoriums at the camp. Essentially the prisoners of the labor and death camps were treated as objects and not as the humans that they were. Many might even go as far as refer to the Germans as heartless for doing the things that they did to the innocent Jews and other monitories. Art Spiegelman’s Maus shows the effects of the German’s dehumanizing treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust and proves that the Germans were monsters toward everyone being victimized in the Holocaust. Art Spiegelman is an American cartoonist who wrote Maus...
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