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What happened to prisoner #8612 in the Stanford Prison Experiment?

Prisoner #8612, Doug Korpi, apparently began to suffer less than 36 hours into the Stanford Prison Experiment. He cried and screamed uncontrollably in despair and anger in reaction to his cruel and abusive mistreatment by prison guards. The director of the experiment at first denied Korpi’s request to be released, suspecting that he was only pretending, but then let him go as his behavior became even worse.