January 26, 2026
Between 2014 and 2024 more than 20 prisons in the Netherlands closed because of a rapid decline in the prison population. The country is putting some of the otherwise empty cells to use by leasing them to other countries such as Norway and Belgium to house their incarcerated people.
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What the Stanford Prison Experiment Taught Us
In August of 1971, Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo of Stanford University in California conducted what is widely considered one of the most influential experiments in social psychology to date. Made into a New York Times best seller in 2007 (The Lucifer Effect) and a major motion picture in 2015 (The
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