Shawshank+Redemption



[|Book about being a prison guard]

[|Wikipedia entry on Stanford Prison Experiment]

Class notes 1/10 (recorded by Tom Hanley):

4 reasons for having prison systems Rehabilitate Protect (keep the bad people away) Punish Deterrent

Death penalty- Possibly does all of these things better. Too expensive though.

Abby is trying to ruin our reverse-psychologizing of the snow day---Mr. Donnelly threw his chalk

Most people die of old age on death row, Northwestern researched death row cases and got 9 Illinois prisoners off the list.

Prison does too much at once, makes things poorly done

New Jack- Author became a prison guard for a year and wrote of his experiences. Disciplinary jobs seem challenging.

Stanford Psychologist picked 20 people, 10 as guards 10 as prisoners. Had to stop early due to the cruelty of the “guards”

Guards cruelty is frowned upon, but happens

Drug addicts are tough to rehabilitate. All they want is their fix.

Requiem for a Dream- Good movie to make you not want to do drugs

“Gettin paid gettin paid” - Chappelle Show

Don’t anger Morgan Freeman… he will glare into your soul

Andy is right about hope because it’s important to keep the one thing that the jail cant reach - CNauth Red is too far into his sentence, it would be bad to hope now. -Billy

Pandora’s Box- Gods punish humans. Put bad things in a box and give it to Pandora telling her not to open it. EVIL MUST COME THROUGH WOMEN. Evil unleashed on world. Hope remains in the box.

Being an adult=No Hope

Having a dream can be destructive.

Mr. Donnelly still has hope for NBA, cant achieve all goals with hard work.

Valedictorian speeches always say anything is possible with work. Not exactly true.

Malcom X had a conversion experience in jail. Told as a kid he couldn’t be a lawyer, rather should be a carpenter

Erin wanted to be an actress, Connor a pro athlete, Abby a Brittany Spears backup dancer, maggie a teacher, Katie a mailman,

Billy saw a homeless man feeding a baby raccoon a dollar… doesn’t want to give now.

Mr. Donnelly loves getting mail. Got gloves, might give to them..

Charities guilt you into giving. Cleft lip pictures, African kids commercials

Dunk contest people running out of things to do. Should add trampolines. Phoenix suns mascot has it hard, dunking in costume from far away.

Currency in jail- barter system

James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman’s voices make everything better.