The dark truth behind the Stanford Prison Experiment: Guards reveal all.

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]At first, everything about it was uncomfortable except probably the sunglasses cuz I did like to wear sunglasses, especially if your eyes were red from getting high. That was helpful.

[00:00:11]First day there was that feeling of awkwardness to kind of get us into our roles, but that feeling disappeared very quickly with all the stuff that was happening.

[00:00:20]I took a leadership role deliberately.

[00:00:23]Somebody must have been spending a lot of money to have this experiment put on and they were trying to show the bad effects of prison, but nothing was happening. I said, "Okay, here's what we're going to do." I was making the plans.

[00:00:35]Morning, girls.

[00:00:42]We would get them out of their cells, line them up in the hallway.

[00:00:46]Turn around and face the wall.

[00:00:48]And I would take them through drills. I shouted in their faces quite a bit. Did I not tell you that you could not laugh?

[00:00:54]Maybe you didn't hear me right.

[00:00:56]One of the guards, we called him John Wayne.