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During a conference on humane criminal justice I received a phone call, but I could not answer it. At the end of the lunch break I called back, and an excellent criminologist was on the other end of the line, and she told me, that recently there was an HIV and HCV blood sample testing in a Hungarian prison among volunteer inmates. The result was dramatic.

I told the story for my both neighbors. One of them was a former teacher of mine. Her husband works in the prison respected. "There…

A gifted TV reporter told me that his crew spent three weeks in a Hungarian prison. They were in the prison for a week just to be not alienated in the prison situation and to find the words which are used by the staff or breaking the ice. In Hungary it is not easy to make a documentary in a prison. The staff is mainly not authorized to say a word without a previous and exclusive permission from the management. This is a quite frequent situation also in other prisons of the world. There are…

One major lesson of the famous Philip Zimbardo (he is 81!!!) Stanford Prison Experiment is that those who play guarding or prisoner role in a simulated prison act more influenced by the situation (the prison setting) than by the predispositional factors (personality traits or SES etc.).

This is not only a social psychological issue but also a major topic of penology.

Who is the prisoner in the prison? What influences the behavior of a prisoner in the prison, the prison roles…