Prison Is An Unethical Experiment On Human Beings

Caging humans is a cruel experiment, practiced without results or consent

Image from a dramatization of the Stanford Prison Experiments, which were deeply flawed

We cage, torture, and kill human beings based on a theory that punishment changes behavior. Can we test this theory? Um, no. No ethics board will let you cage and torture people for years to see how it ‘works’. Incarceration is too fucked up to study, but…