Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start

Evidence

One thing is clear: the prison was not at first a deprivation of liberty to which a technical function of correction was later added; it was from the outset a form of ‘legal detention’ entrusted with an additional corrective task, or an enterprise for reforming individuals that the deprivation of liberty allowed to function in the legal system. In short, penal imprisonment, from the beginning of the nineteenth century, covered both the deprivation of liberty and the technical transformation of individuals. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 357

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reform has been built into the prison since its origin; The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 506; The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 379 (+2 more)

Related

• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.89)
• The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings (similarity 0.88)
• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote (similarity 0.88)
• Reform has always been proposed as the remedy for the prison’s failure (similarity 0.86)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.86)
• Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.85)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.85)
• The penitentiary apparatus substitutes the delinquent for the offender. (similarity 0.84)
• The penal apparatus morally reeducated the poor into legalism (similarity 0.83)
• The penitentiary was framed as a progressive reform of its era. (similarity 0.83)
• The prison is totalizing and unceasingly disciplinary, with no exterior (similarity 0.83)
• Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them (similarity 0.83)
• The public spectacle of punishment gave way to enclosed hierarchized detention within decades. (similarity 0.83)
• Foucault writes the history of the present through the prison (similarity 0.82)
• The prison’s failures were denounced at its very inception (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Reform has been built into the prison since its origin #corroborates (0.95)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth #corroborates (0.92) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 379
• The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings #expands (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 506