Isolation plus supervised assembly was meant to train prisoners into social individuals
Evidence
Thus this operation of isolation, assembly without communication and law guaranteed by uninterrupted supervision, must rehabilitate the criminal as a social individual: it trains him to a ‘useful and resigned activity’ (Gasparin); it restores for him ‘habits of sociability’ (Beaumont and Tocqueville, 112). — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 365
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘law guaranteed by uninterrupted supervision’ parallels the internalized panopticon the reader is tracing — compliance comes from constant surveillance rather than visible force. — connects to: French prison policy oscillated between common work and absolute isolation — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 536; Psychological isolation rather than physical locks is the main method of coercion; The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 506 (+2 more)
Related
- All prison-model disputes shared the goal of coercive individualization (similarity 0.81)
- Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.80)
- Prisons function as schools of crime and organized delinquency (similarity 0.79)
- The prison is totalizing and unceasingly disciplinary, with no exterior (similarity 0.78)
- Solitary confinement was once seen as emancipatory, not torturous (similarity 0.78)
- Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.78)
- The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- French prison policy oscillated between common work and absolute isolation
#qualifies(0.95) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 536 - The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 506 - Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start
#corroborates(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 357 - Psychological isolation rather than physical locks is the main method of coercion
#expands(0.80) - Solitary confinement was once seen as emancipatory, not torturous
#qualifies(0.80) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 121