I just read an article about the Iraqi prisoner fiasco in People Magazine , May 24, 2004 - page 66.
A psychologist, Craig Haney, now a professor of psychologiy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was a researcher in a 1971 study at Stanford University. Student volunteers were recurited for a mock prison. Half were guards and the other half were prisoners. Within days the "guards" who were given no rules, were routinely humiliating their "prisoners" by, among other things, making them strip naked and wear hoods. Haney said, "we concluded that good, normal people placed in a bad situation have their behavior pushed and twisted in unrecognizable forms."
Part of the problem of this teen industry is the fact that there are few rules and regulations. These rules are not posted in a prominent location for patients and staff to read. Also the administration covers up the staff abuse and also encourages it. These people who watch the children answer to no one. When reports of abuse come in - the authorities who should be looking out for the best interests of these children turn a deaf ear and blind eye. Rarely is anything done - unless someone dies - then they appear to take some kind of action because the incident is usually broadcast throughout the nation. Otherwise - little to nothing is done.
I honestly believe that these prisoners in Iraq would still be subjected to humiliation and torture if those photos had not been shown to the entire world.
The same is true with this awful industry. If there were undercover operations in these facilities - where videos and photos were taken and then released to the media - there would be a public outcry world wide.
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