European reformatories like Mettray modeled Dutch colonial children’s colonies

Evidence

But that rural romance was also part of a reformist vision that extended across the colonial globe. It is what I call here the carceral archipelago of empire. Explicitly, its blueprints were drawn from early nineteenthcentury models of agricultural colonies fashioned to reform Europe’s impoverished urban youth through bodily discipline and love of the soil. The most famous and relevant example for colonial authorities was based on the 1840 rural penal colony of Mettray and the variant experiments that it inspired. … In its Indies variant such children’s colonies would produce future generations to serve as choice cultural brokers and political middlemen, at once adept in native know-how but committed and beholden to Dutch supremacy and its enduring rule. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 647

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces and defines the book’s core concept ‘the carceral archipelago of empire’ and its Mettray pedigree.
• XREF: Links to Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, which also centers Mettray as the carceral model.
• ADDENDUM: Relates to the sacrifice/colony essay line—Mettray as a reform-via-discipline machine parallels colonial children’s colonies’ production of middlemen.