Reform has always been proposed as the remedy for the prison’s failure

Evidence

The answer to these criticisms was invariably the same: the reintroduction of the invariable principles of penitentiary technique. For a century and a half the prison had always been offered as its own remedy: the reactivation of the penitentiary techniques as the only means of overcoming their perpetual failure; the realization of the corrective project as the only method of overcoming the impossibility of implementing it. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 408

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The prison perpetually fails yet the only proposed cure is more of the same ‘penitentiary technique’ — a self-sealing logic of institutional failure and reform.
• XREF: connects to: Prison persists as a detestable solution no alternative replaces — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 355; Reform has been built into the prison since its origin; Prison reform rhetoric reinforces the prison’s permanence. (+4 more)

Related

• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote (similarity 0.94)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.91)
• Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.91)
• The penitentiary was framed as a progressive reform of its era. (similarity 0.88)
• The prison’s failures were denounced at its very inception (similarity 0.87)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.86)
• Prison reformers were insiders bound to prison administration, not outside critics (similarity 0.85)
• Prison persists as a detestable solution no alternative replaces (similarity 0.84)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.84)
• The prison debate wrongly focuses on correction while normalization mechanisms proliferate unchecked. (similarity 0.83)
• Modern universal imprisonment was not the reformers’ original design (similarity 0.83)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.82)
• Imprisonment’s rapid acceptance is poorly explained by the prestige of reform models alone (similarity 0.82)
• The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings (similarity 0.82)
• Rehabilitation has been displaced by incapacitation as prison’s goal (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Reform has been built into the prison since its origin #corroborates (0.95)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system #corroborates (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 418
• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 359
• Prison reform rhetoric reinforces the prison’s permanence. #expands (0.80)
• Reform rhetoric bolsters prison permanence and cannot meet corporate-era challenges #expands (0.75) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 266
• Penal reform sought not less punishment but more universal, deeper social control #expands (0.70) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 136