Penal reform originated from within the magistracy, not outside it.

Evidence

The reform was not prepared outside the legal machinery and against all its representatives; it was prepared, for the most part, from within, by a large number of magistrates and on the basis of shared objectives and the power conflicts that divided them. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 135

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reform has been built into the prison since its origin

Related

• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote (similarity 0.85)
• Prison reformers were insiders bound to prison administration, not outside critics (similarity 0.84)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.82)
• Reform has always been proposed as the remedy for the prison’s failure (similarity 0.82)
• Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.81)
• Penal reform arose from a policy shift, not new humanitarian feeling (similarity 0.81)
• The court is subordinate to the prison, not the reverse. (similarity 0.81)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.79)
• The penitentiary was framed as a progressive reform of its era. (similarity 0.79)
• The birth of the prison is analyzed only within the French penal system. (similarity 0.79)
• Penal reform sought not less punishment but more universal, deeper social control (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Reform has been built into the prison since its origin #corroborates (0.75)