The birth of the prison is analyzed only within the French penal system.

Evidence

3 I shall study the birth of the prison only in the French penal system. … Differences in historical developments and institutions would make a detailed comparative examination too burdensome and any attempt to describe the phenomenon as a whole too schematic. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 473

Related

• The prison form preexisted and supplied the model for legal punishment (similarity 0.85)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.84)
• The court is subordinate to the prison, not the reverse. (similarity 0.83)
• Foucault writes the history of the present through the prison (similarity 0.82)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.82)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.80)
• The rise of imprisonment was historically novel, not a natural succession. (similarity 0.80)
• Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them (similarity 0.80)
• The prison was originally embraced as a humane replacement for capital and corporal punishment. (similarity 0.80)
• Prisons function as schools of crime and organized delinquency (similarity 0.79)
• The prison’s failures were denounced at its very inception (similarity 0.79)
• Systems of punishment correlate strictly with systems of production (similarity 0.79)
• Penal reform originated from within the magistracy, not outside it. (similarity 0.79)
• Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.79)
• The prison is totalizing and unceasingly disciplinary, with no exterior (similarity 0.78)