THE PAST AND FUTURE OF US PRISON POLICY - 25 YEARS AFTER THE STANFORDPRISON EXPERIMENT

In this article, the authors reflect on the lessons of their Stanford Prison Experiment, some 25 years after conducting it. They review the quarter century of change in criminal justice and correctional policie s that has transpired since the Stanford Prison Experiment and then de velop a series of reform-oriented proposals drawn from this and relate d studies on the power of social situations and institutional settings that can be applied to the current crisis in American corrections.