“I realize now that the basic function of prisons like Danbury is not merely to warehouse a man but to break his adult male spirit — his machismo, if you will — and reduce him to the psychological level of an obedient child. Basic techniques are: Physical removal to isolated areas (Allenwood, Danbury, etc.) which weakens or severs close emotional ties to family and friends. Segregation of all natural leaders. Use of cooperative prisoners as leaders. Use of informers. Placing individuals into new and ambiguous situations for which the standards are kept deliberately unclear, and then putting pressure on the men to conform and blindly obey authority in order to win favor and a reprieve from pressure and the ambiguity. Rewarding submission and subserviency. Building a group conviction among the prisoners that they’ve been abandoned by, and are almost totally isolated from, the social order.”