The kind of facility I was in was more of a place to warehouse prisoners. They housed 50 people in bunk beds in each warehouse room with no air conditioning. Wh

The kind of facility I was in was more of a place to warehouse prisoners. They housed 50 people in bunk beds in each warehouse room with no air conditioning. When we moved from the dorm to (for instance) the cafeteria, there were some required rules for the safety of the employees. All the inmates had to be 3 feet from each other, hands clasped behind their backs, looking down. A lot of it was purely for psychological purposes. We were never addressed by our names, just "Inmate". I asked them why they didn't just call us prisoners, and they told me that it was because we were Inmates not prisoners since we choose to be there. The not making eye-contact thing was pretty rough too. It wasn't as out of control as the Milgram experiment or anything, but I did get the distinct impression that the person who put together the operations manuals was very well versed in some of the darker parts of psychology.