Prison reformers were insiders bound to prison administration, not outside critics

Evidence

The most important were no doubt those proposed by Lucas, Marquet-Wasselot, Faucher, Bonneville, and a little later by Ferrus. It should be noted that most of them were not philanthropists, criticizing the carceral institution from the outside, but were bound up, in one way or another, with the administration of the prisons. They were official technicians. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 533

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general pattern Foucault develops of power operating through the very discourses that claim to critique it, and parallels the reader’s interest in how surveillance discourse is internalized. — connects to: Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 359; 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 0.88)
• Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.86)
• Reform has always been proposed as the remedy for the prison’s failure (similarity 0.85)
• Penal reform originated from within the magistracy, not outside it. (similarity 0.84)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.82)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.81)
• The prison debate wrongly focuses on correction while normalization mechanisms proliferate unchecked. (similarity 0.80)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.80)
• The penitentiary was framed as a progressive reform of its era. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Reform has been built into the prison since its origin #corroborates (0.80)