Netflix viewers have been left in shock by The New Stanford Prison Experiment, a recreation of the controversial 1971 psychological study.
The original experiment split 24 male American college students into two groups of 12 – inmates and guards – but the abuse handed out by the guards was so brutal that the study had to be terminated after just six days.
Netflix’s six-part series re-stages the experiment with 30 participants – eight guards and 22 inmates – to answer the original’s central question: Does power corrupt?
The streamer has defended the show by insisting there were several guardrails in place to protect participants, but
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