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  2. Experimentation on prisoners - Wikipedia

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    Project MKUltra was a CIA-run human experiment program from 1953–1973 where volunteers, prisoners and unwitting subjects were administered hallucinogenic drugs in an attempt to develop incapacitating substances and chemical mind control agents, in an operation run by Sidney Gottlieb. [3] Numerous experiments were done on prisoners throughout ...

  3. Concord Prison Experiment - Wikipedia

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    Concord Prison. The Concord Prison Experiment, conducted from 1961 to 1963, was designed to evaluate whether the experiences produced by the psychoactive drug psilocybin, derived from psilocybin mushrooms, combined with psychotherapy, could inspire prisoners to leave their antisocial lifestyles behind once they were released.

  4. The Lucifer Effect - Wikipedia

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    The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil is a 2007 book which includes professor Philip Zimbardo's first detailed, written account of the events surrounding the 1971 Stanford prison experiment (SPE) – a prison simulation study which had to be discontinued after only six days due to several distressing outcomes and mental breaks of the participants.

  5. Harvard Psilocybin Project - Wikipedia

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    As such, their use of psilocybin and other psychedelics ranged from the academically sound and open Concord Prison Experiment, in which inmates were given psilocybin in an effort to reduce recidivism, and the Marsh Chapel Experiment, run by a Harvard Divinity School graduate student under Leary's supervision in which Boston area graduate ...

  6. Psychologist behind the controversial ‘Stanford Prison ...

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    Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91.

  7. Terre Haute prison experiments - Wikipedia

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    There were 241 test subjects chosen from the prison. [1] The requirements to participate in the experiment were that you be at least 21 years old and fully understood the risks involved. [1] The prisoners signed waivers and were told they would receive $100 and a letter of recommendation for parole after completing the experiment. [1]

  8. Is 'Unlocked: A Jail Experiment' real? The story behind the ...

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    Another said the experiment gave them "hope for the prison industrial complex." Of course, some viewers were skeptical at first. "Now watching — Unlocked: A Jail Experiment.

  9. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Federal prison officials were close to canceling the contract in 1992, according to media accounts at the time, but they said conditions at the facility started to improve after frequent inspections. In a federal lawsuit, one LeMarquis employee, Richard Moore, alleged that he had been severely beaten by another employee – at the direction of ...