The court is subordinate to the prison, not the reverse.

Evidence

That the prison is not the daughter of laws, codes or the judicial apparatus; that it is not subordinated to the court and the docile or clumsy instrument of the sentences that it hands out and of the results that it would like to achieve; that it is the court that is external and subordinate to the prison. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 469

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The prison form preexisted and supplied the model for legal punishment — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 354

Related

• The prison form preexisted and supplied the model for legal punishment (similarity 0.89)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.83)
• The birth of the prison is analyzed only within the French penal system. (similarity 0.83)
• Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them (similarity 0.82)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.82)
• Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.81)
• Penal reform originated from within the magistracy, not outside it. (similarity 0.81)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.80)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.80)
• Disciplinary penality is irreducible to the traditional penality of law and eventually invested it. (similarity 0.80)
• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote (similarity 0.80)
• The prison is totalizing and unceasingly disciplinary, with no exterior (similarity 0.79)
• The penitentiary apparatus substitutes the delinquent for the offender. (similarity 0.79)
• Reform has always been proposed as the remedy for the prison’s failure (similarity 0.79)
• A swarm of subsidiary authorities fragments judicial power to punish (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The prison form preexisted and supplied the model for legal punishment #corroborates (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 354