Netflix just premieredThe New Stanford Prison Experiment, six episodes filmed inside a decommissioned section of a working detention center in Canton, Georgia. Thirty participants took on roles as inmates and guards, with three experts overseeing a planned two-week run split into four phases: Transformation, Hierarchy, Role Reversal, and Self-Governance. Anyone could walk away at any time by saying the safe word“pineapple.”
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