Prison wages act as a fiction measuring moral transformation, not production

Evidence

The wages of penal labour do not reward production; they function as a motive and measure of individual transformation: it is a legal fiction, since it does not represent the ‘free’ granting of labour power, but an artifice that is presumed to be effective in the techniques of correction. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 370

Categorization

• XREF: The wage-as-artifice prefigures how the telescreen’s constant surveillance is also a fabricated apparatus whose value is purely disciplinary. — connects to: Profitability, not severity, is the surest test of prisoner reformation — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 192; Penal labour’s real purpose is power relations, not production or skills — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 371; Penalties target the inmate’s transformation, not the exchange value of the crime — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 374 (+6 more)

Related

• Penalties target the inmate’s transformation, not the exchange value of the crime (similarity 0.88)
• Penal labour’s real purpose is power relations, not production or skills (similarity 0.85)
• Penitentiary technique judges the criminal’s affinity with crime, not the act itself (similarity 0.80)
• Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character (similarity 0.79)
• The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings (similarity 0.78)
• Time-based prison sentences mirror the commodification of labor time (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Penalties target the inmate’s transformation, not the exchange value of the crime #corroborates (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 374
• Penitentiary technique judges the criminal’s affinity with crime, not the act itself #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 388
• Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character #expands (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 160
• The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 506
• Time-based prison sentences mirror the commodification of labor time #expands (0.72) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 111
• Survival under extremity can require moral transformation #exemplifies (0.72) — Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky, 15