my guess is that guards turn a half blind eye, something to do with being more easier to control a prison where inmates are allowed some degree of freedom and s

my guess is that guards turn a half blind eye, something to do with being more easier to control a prison where inmates are allowed some degree of freedom and self organizing. I'll research this later, it's an interesting subject. some interesting stuff that came up while looking trough research material: http://www.garysturt.free-online.co.uk/zimbardo.htm http://www.garysturt.free-online.co.uk/zimbardo.htm simulated prison experiment going downhilll this one is about cigarettes and seem to support the point: http://tpj.sagepub.com/content/81/2/142.short http://tpj.sagepub.com/content/81/2/142.short "This study describes how bans can transform largely benign cigarette “gray markets,” where cigarettes are used as a currency, into more problematic black markets, where cigarettes are a highly priced commodity."