The Single Story at Abu Ghraib (Prison Experiment)

While watching Standard Operating Procedure I found it interesting how much information was not interrupted through the pictures. The story we interrupted through the pictures was the humiliation presented and the unethical actions that soldiers may have taken. The film present the need for information, the reason behind these actions. We find out that these actions where in fact not done by every soldier. Mainly the younger and uneducated soldiers where the ones that resorted to these forms of humiliation and torture. They were given orders to soften the prisoners up but they were not interrogating the right people. Instead, they were treating innocent civilians bad. Civilians that were in the wrong place at the wrong time. I compared the actions in the prison similar to those in the Stanford Prison Experiment. How when presented with a authoritative and evil situation people will act that way. Even the most sensitive and nice people will act with authority and if their authority is not respected they will force their authority through torture, humiliation, and fear.

http://www.prisonexp.org/