Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them

Evidence

Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become the modern instrument of penality? Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 353

Categorization

• XREF: This cross-institutional spread is the natural precedent for the reader’s claim that the telescreen carries panoptic discipline beyond institutional boundaries into the household. — connects to: The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 418; The prison is totalizing and unceasingly disciplinary, with no exterior — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 362

Related

• The prison is totalizing and unceasingly disciplinary, with no exterior (similarity 0.87)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.86)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.84)
• Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.83)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.83)
• The court is subordinate to the prison, not the reverse. (similarity 0.82)
• The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings (similarity 0.82)
• The prison form preexisted and supplied the model for legal punishment (similarity 0.82)
• The prison debate wrongly focuses on correction while normalization mechanisms proliferate unchecked. (similarity 0.81)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.81)
• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote (similarity 0.81)
• Reform has always been proposed as the remedy for the prison’s failure (similarity 0.80)
• Punishment’s meaning is fashioned through institutional symbiotic relationships (similarity 0.80)
• The birth of the prison is analyzed only within the French penal system. (similarity 0.80)
• The prison and the delinquent are mutually produced in a single technological ensemble (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 418