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Philip Zimbardo was the leader of the notorious 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment — and an expert witness at Abu Ghraib

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo has seen good people turn evil, and he thinks he knows why.  Phillip will use this 3 minute video to illustrate his points that feature many previously unseen and disturbing photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

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In March 2006, Salon.com published 279 photos and 19 videos from Abu Ghraib, one of the most extensive documentations to date of abuse in the notorious prison. Zimbardo claims, however, that many images in his video — which he obtained while serving as an expert witness for an Abu Ghraib defendant — have never before been published.

The Abu Ghraib prison made international headlines in 2004 when photographs of military personnel abusing Iraqi prisoners were published around the world. Seven soldiers were convicted in courts martial and two, including Specialist Lynndie England, were sentenced to prison.

Zimbardo conducted a now-famous experiment at Stanford University in 1971, involving students who posed as prisoners and guards. Five days into the experiment, Zimbardo halted the study when the student guards began abusing the prisoners, forcing them to strip naked and simulate sex acts.

His book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, explores how a "perfect storm" of conditions can make ordinary people commit horrendous acts.

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Surveillance video released in an assault case against a King County, Wash. sheriff’s deputy shows him kicking a young girl, slamming her to the jail cell floor punching her on the top of the head and striking her repeatedly before lifting her to her feet by her hair.

Of course the deputy has pleaded not guilty in case.

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She is the victim in a 911 plea for help, the arriving officer admits he was confused and thought she was the guilty party, he picks her up off of the ground and slams her back down, arrests her and that is just the start of her nightmare.  When she arrives at the station, arrested for “resisting arrest” she gets held down by male officers, stripped of all her clothes including underwear and bra and left on a stone cold floor for over 6 hours with nothing to cover herself with except toilet paper.  When it is time to book her all she is given is a weighted vest to wear.  Much of the police video of that night has mysteriously disappeared, from malfunctioning squad car video to missing video from her walk down to the the walk down to the strip room, Stark county Sherriff’s Dept issued a statement stating “Everything was done by the books”  I wonder who wrote their books.

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"Police brutality is only effective when it is not caught on tape.”

They certainly COULD have given her a suicide suit, that’s why they have them..

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This is the case of Hope Steffey.

She is the victim in a 911 plea for help, the arriving officer admits he was confused and thought she was the guilty party, he picks her up off of the ground and slams her back down, arrests her and that is just the start of her nightmare.  When she arrives at the station, arrested for “resisting arrest” she gets held down by male officers, stripped of all her clothes including underwear and bra and left on a stone cold floor for over 6 hours with nothing to cover herself with except toilet paper.  When it is time to book her all she is given is a weighted vest to wear.  Much of the police video of that night has mysteriously disappeared, from malfunctioning squad car video to missing video from her walk down to the the walk down to the strip room, Stark county Sherriff’s Dept issued a statement stating “Everything was done by the books”  I wonder who wrote their books.

According to a grand jury, Stark County deputies committed no criminal acts while arresting Hope Steffey two years ago. Nancy H. Rogers, Ohio attorney general, issued a statement saying that a Stark County grand jury did not hand down any indictments after reviewing the evidence presented by the state’s Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation Special Prosecution Sections.

The Steffey case was investigtated by Paul Scarsella, the Chief of the Special Prosecutions Section for the Attorney General’s Office where he manages 4 attorneys and support staff. He was assisted by Bridget Carty, Public Integrity Unit Coordinator, and an Assistant Attorney General in the Special Prosecutions Section.

The Special prosecutors, Paul Scarsella and Bridget Carty, said the incident, in which male and female deputies forcibly removed Steffey’s clothes at the Stark County jail, was a suicide precaution. They said the deputies were only following a medical order given by a doctor on duty to remove her clothes. Though the jail has suicide suits for inmates to wear, prosecutor Scarscella said Steffey was not immediately given one because even the suit was deemed too dangerous for her to have.

The Special prosecutors presented the results of their investigation to the grand jury without interviewing Hope Steffey. They said they were unwilling to interview her with her lawyers present, as she requested. Steffey did however appear before the grand jury. The grand jury declined to indict the deputies involved.

Steffey denied that she was suicidal or was given the opportunity to remove her clothes herself. There is no policy that prevents men from removing a female inmate’s clothes during a suicide precaution situation. Men are however prevented from strip-searching a female inmate.

However, the findings of this grand jury will have no bearing on the federal lawsuit that Hope Steffey filed on Oct. 2007, accusing Stark County deputies of violating her civil rights by assaulting, strip-searching and leaving her injured and naked for six hours in a Stark County jail cell. She had to use toilet paper to cover herself. Defendants in the case are Swanson, Deputy Sheriff Richard T. Gurlea Jr. and one to 15 other “John and Jane Does” employed at the Stark County Jail, and the Stark County commissioners. That case is scheduled to go to trial in December.

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