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== Legacy ==
One positive result of the study is that it has altered the way US prisons are managed. For example, juveniles accused of federal crimes are no longer housed before trial with adult prisoners, due to the risk of violence against them.<ref name=":0" />{{Better source needed|reason=Source does not provide any elaboration on this claim.|date=April 2024}}

Zimbardo submitted a statement to the 1971 [[US House Committee on the Judiciary]] about the experiment's findings.<ref>{{Cite book|last=No. 3|first=United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y18jUYWXQ9wC&q=Zimbardo+reported+his+findings+on+the+experiment+to+the+U.S.+House+Committee+on+the+Judiciary&pg=RA1-PA110|title=Corrections: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 3 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress, First [and Second] Session on Corrections|date=1971|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}}</ref>

=== Comparisons to Abu Ghraib ===
When [[Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse|acts of prisoner torture and abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq]] were publicized in March 2004, Zimbardo was struck by the similarity with his own experiment. He was dismayed by official military and government representatives shifting the blame for the torture and abuses in the [[Abu Ghraib prison|Abu Ghraib]] American military prison onto "a few [[bad apples]]", rather than acknowledging the possibly systemic problems of a formally established military incarceration system.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dittmann |first=Melissa |date=2004 |title=What makes good people do bad things? |url=https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct04/goodbad |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=apa.org}}</ref> Zimbardo was then quoted saying "I argue that we all have the capacity for love and evil—to be Mother Theresa, to be Hitler or Saddam Hussein. It's the situation that brings that out".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dittman |first=Melissa |date=2004 |title=What makes good people do bad things? |url=https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct04/goodbad |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=www.apa.org}}</ref>

Eventually, Zimbardo became involved with the defense team of lawyers representing one of the Abu Ghraib prison guards, Staff Sergeant [[Ivan Frederick|Ivan "Chip" Frederick]]. Zimbardo was granted full access to all investigation and background reports, and he testified as an [[expert witness]] in Frederick's [[court martial]]. The trial resulted in an eight-year prison sentence for Frederick in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|last2=|last3=|first3=|last4=|last5=|last6=|last7=|last8=|first8=|last9=|date=October 21, 2004|title=Top-Ranked Abu Ghraib Soldier Gets 8 Years in Prison|url=https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-102104abughraib_lat-story.html|access-date=August 19, 2021|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref>

Zimbardo drew from his participation in the Frederick case to write the book ''[[The Lucifer Effect|The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil]]'', which deals with the similarities between his own Stanford prison experiment and the Abu Ghraib abuses.

=== In popular culture ===
Italian moviemaker [[Carlo Tuzii]] was the first director to film a story based on the experiment when, in 1977, he directed the [[TV film|television movie]] {{lang|it|La gabbia}} ('The cage'), for [[Rai 1]]. Tuzii's original story called for a group of twenty young people from various social backgrounds, who were divided randomly into "guards" and "prisoners" and instructed to spend one month on opposite sides of an enormously high gate, with [[barbed wire]] on top, built in the middle of a large park. Before principal photography started, however, some concerns from [[RAI]] executives forced Tuzii and the screenwriters to alter the script into a very similar story to the actual Stanford experiment, including the outcome. [[Miguel Bosé]] featured as prisoner Carlo; [[progressive pop]] music band [[Pooh (band)|Pooh]] scored the movie and had a hit in Italy with a 7-inch edit of the theme tune.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

The 2001 German-language movie ''[[Das Experiment]]'' featuring [[Moritz Bleibtreu]] is based on the experiment. It was remade in 2010 in English as ''[[The Experiment (2010 film)|The Experiment]]''<ref>{{Cite web|date=August 21, 2015|title=1971 Experiment 'hard to believe'|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/aug/21/1971-experiment-hard-to-believe-2015082/|access-date=August 19, 2021|website=Arkansas Online|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=The Experiment (2001) – IMDb|date=March 8, 2001|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250258/|language=en-US|access-date=August 19, 2021}}</ref> and was directed by Paul T. Scheuring and starred Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Cam Gigandet, Clifton Collins, Jr., and Maggie Grace.

The 2015 movie ''[[The Stanford Prison Experiment (film)|The Stanford Prison Experiment]]'' is based on the experiment.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=July 17|first1=Samantha Highfill Updated|last2=EDT|first2=2015 at 12:00 PM|title=Billy Crudup turns college students into prison guards in 'The Stanford Prison Experiment'|url=https://ew.com/article/2015/07/17/stanford-prison-experiment-billy-crudup/|access-date=2023-03-16|website=EW.com|language=en}}</ref>

The [[YouTube]] series ''[[Mind Field]]'', hosted by [[Michael Stevens (educator)|Michael Stevens]], features an episode discussing the experiment.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Milligan|first=Kaitlin|title=MIND FIELD Revisits The Stanford Prison Experiment in New Episode|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/MIND-FIELD-Revisits-The-Stanford-Prison-Experiment-in-New-Episode-20181219|access-date=August 19, 2021|website=BroadwayWorld.com|language=en}}</ref>

In Season 3, Episode 2 of the television series ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', entitled "[[My Big Fat Greek Rush Week]]", a similar experiment is featured.<ref name="IGN">{{cite web|url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2006/10/11/veronica-mars-my-big-fat-greek-rush-week-review|title=Veronica Mars: "My Big Fat Greek Rush Week" Review|work=[[IGN]]|last=Goldman|first=Eric|date=October 11, 2006|access-date=June 14, 2015}}</ref>

In ''[[The Overstory]]'' by [[Richard Powers]], the fictional character Douglas Pavlicek is a prisoner in the experiment, an experience which influences later decisions.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rich|first=Nathaniel|date=May 11, 2018|title=The Novel That Asks, 'What Went Wrong With Mankind?'|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/richard-powers-the-overstory/559106/|access-date=August 19, 2021|website=The Atlantic|language=en}}</ref>

In Season 15, Episode 10 of television show ''[[American Dad (TV series)|American Dad]]'', "American Data", Roger recruits Steve, Toshi, Snot and Barry into a similar experiment.<ref>{{Cite web|title=American Dad: Season 15 Episode 12 – TV on Google Play|url=https://play.google.com/store/tv/show/American_Dad?cdid=tvseason-M4dIVKYglBraW5d7ZeHTYw&gdid=tvepisode-JkCyEdvxhGc&id=aYF0bEQa5GY&hl=en_US&gl=US|access-date=August 19, 2021|website=play.google.com|language=en}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=April 2022}}

In Volume 10, Chapter 92 of [[Prison School]], Kate Takenomiya makes reference to and implements a similar scheme to the school's prison

In 2024, Disney released a [[National Geographic]] three episode documentary series "The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth" with first hand accounts of the original participants in the study.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 13, 2024 |title="The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth" |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/show/6b363dd7-fac5-4ec8-a530-cbc97b1a3322 |access-date=November 22, 2024 |website=National Geographic}}</ref>