Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances.

Evidence

But, rooted as it was in mechanisms and strategies of power, it could meet any attempt to transform it with a great force of inertia. One fact is characteristic: when it is a question of altering the system of imprisonment, opposition does not come from the judicial institutions alone; resistance is to be found not in the prison as penal sanction, but in the prison with all its determinations, links and extra-judicial results; in the prison as the relay in a general network of disciplines and surveillances; in the prison as it functions in a panoptic régime. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 466

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Prison reform rhetoric reinforces the prison’s permanence.; The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 418; Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 359 (+2 more)

Related

• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote (similarity 0.93)
• Reform has always been proposed as the remedy for the prison’s failure (similarity 0.91)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.89)
• Prison reformers were insiders bound to prison administration, not outside critics (similarity 0.86)
• The prison debate wrongly focuses on correction while normalization mechanisms proliferate unchecked. (similarity 0.85)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.85)
• The penitentiary was framed as a progressive reform of its era. (similarity 0.84)
• Prison persists as a detestable solution no alternative replaces (similarity 0.84)
• Modern universal imprisonment was not the reformers’ original design (similarity 0.83)
• Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them (similarity 0.83)
• Imprisonment’s rapid acceptance is poorly explained by the prestige of reform models alone (similarity 0.83)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.83)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.82)
• The prison’s failures were denounced at its very inception (similarity 0.82)
• The prison is totalizing and unceasingly disciplinary, with no exterior (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system #corroborates (0.95) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 418
• Prison reform rhetoric reinforces the prison’s permanence. #expands (0.90)
• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote #corroborates (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 359
• Reform rhetoric bolsters prison permanence and cannot meet corporate-era challenges #expands (0.85) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 266
• Reform has been built into the prison since its origin #expands (0.80)