The guards were given handcuffs, whistles and billy clubs.
The guards were given total control over them.
Furthermore, the Zimbardo "guards" were given what they considered to be a free hand.
The Omarska guards were given jail terms from 5 to 25 years.
Teachers got a rise, police sweeter pensions; prison guards were given costly new health benefits, clerical employees extra sick days.
But he also emphasized that the students in the study had been "the cream of the crop of this generation," and said that the guards were given no specific instructions, and left free to make "up their own rules for maintaining law, order, and respect".
The guards were given uniforms, billy clubs and sunglasses.
From the 1960s through to the end of the 1980s, the border guards were given daily verbal orders (Vergatterung) to "track down, arrest or annihilate violators".
For their part, the guards were given clubs, whistles, keys to the prison cells, and mirrored sunglasses ("an idea I got from the film Cool Hand Luke," Zimbardo explained).
However, to ensure that the emperor's entire safety was not entrusted to a single officer, the subordinates of the Minister of the Guards were given sole right to patrol the palaces' entrances and walls while the eunuchs guarded the emperor's private apartments and harem.
