Prisons function as schools of crime and organized delinquency

Evidence

The prison makes possible, even encourages, the organization of a milieu of delinquents, loyal to one another, hierarchized, ready to aid and abet any future criminal act: ‘Society prohibits associations of more than twenty persons … and it constitutes for itself associations of 200, 500, 1,200 convicts in the maisons centrales, which are constructed for them ad hoc, and which it divides up for their greater convenience into workshops, courtyards, dormitories, refectories, where they can all meet together … And it multiplies them across France in such a way that, where there is a prison, there is an association … and as many anti-social clubs’ (Moreau-Christophe, 7). — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 405

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The prison and the delinquent are mutually produced in a single technological ensemble — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 390; Prisons demonstrably fail to reduce the crime rate — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 402; Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 432 (+5 more)

Related

• Prisons demonstrably fail to reduce the crime rate (similarity 0.86)
• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents (similarity 0.85)
• The prison’s apparent failure is actually its designed success at producing delinquency (similarity 0.84)
• The prison and the delinquent are mutually produced in a single technological ensemble (similarity 0.84)
• Classifying the delinquent as a pathological subject is inseparable from politically isolating delinquency (similarity 0.82)
• Prisons function as criminal training centers and a just society would not need them (similarity 0.81)
• Prisons mixed convict classes to keep lower strata in perpetual conflict (similarity 0.79)
• The birth of the prison is analyzed only within the French penal system. (similarity 0.79)
• The penitentiary apparatus substitutes the delinquent for the offender. (similarity 0.79)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.79)
• Isolation plus supervised assembly was meant to train prisoners into social individuals (similarity 0.79)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Prisons function as criminal training centers and a just society would not need them #corroborates (0.95) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 279
• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents #corroborates (0.92) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 432
• Prisons mixed convict classes to keep lower strata in perpetual conflict #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 436
• Prison functions as a recruitment and training centre for insurgencies #expands (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 350