Mettray sat at the limit of penality, anchoring a carceral archipelago beyond criminal law

Evidence

Mettray, a punitive model, is at the limit of strict penality. It was the most famous of a whole series of institutions which, well beyond the frontiers of criminal law, constituted what one might call the carceral archipelago. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 453

Categorization

• DEFINE: Foucault introduces ‘carceral archipelago’ — the extension of punitive logic across institutions beyond law, the very thesis the reader tests against Orwell’s extension of the panopticon into private homes and minds.