The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system

Evidence

One must not, therefore, regard the prison, its ‘failure’ and its more or less successful reform as three successive stages. One should think rather of a simultaneous system that historically has been superimposed on the juridical deprivation of liberty; a fourfold system comprising: the additional, disciplinary element of the prison – the element of ‘super-power’; the production of an objectivity, a technique, a penitentiary ‘rationality’ – the element of auxiliary knowledge; the de facto reintroduction, if not actual increase, of a criminality that the prison ought to destroy – the element of inverted efficiency; lastly, the repetition of a ‘reform’ that is isomorphic, despite its ‘idealism’, with the disciplinary functioning of the prison – the element of utopian duplication. It is this complex ensemble that constitutes the ‘carceral system’, not only the institution of the prison, with its walls, its staff, its regulations and its violence. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 418

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘carceral system’ as a fourfold simultaneous ensemble, not the prison institution alone.
• XREF: connects to: Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 353; The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 379; The penitentiary apparatus substitutes the delinquent for the offender. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 386 (+13 more)

Related

• Reform has always been proposed as the remedy for the prison’s failure (similarity 0.91)
• Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.89)
• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote (similarity 0.89)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.87)
• Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them (similarity 0.86)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.86)
• The prison’s apparent failure is actually its designed success at producing delinquency (similarity 0.86)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.85)
• Systems of thought become prisons that are easily made, applied, and guarded (similarity 0.85)
• The prison’s failures were denounced at its very inception (similarity 0.85)
• The penitentiary was framed as a progressive reform of its era. (similarity 0.84)
• The penitentiary apparatus substitutes the delinquent for the offender. (similarity 0.84)
• The prison is totalizing and unceasingly disciplinary, with no exterior (similarity 0.83)
• The prison and the delinquent are mutually produced in a single technological ensemble (similarity 0.83)
• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Prison reform rhetoric reinforces the prison’s permanence. #corroborates (0.85)
• Reform rhetoric bolsters prison permanence and cannot meet corporate-era challenges #corroborates (0.82) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 266
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 209
• Reform has been built into the prison since its origin #corroborates (0.80)
• The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings #corroborates (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 506
• The prison’s apparent failure is actually its designed success at producing delinquency #corroborates (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 425
• Abolitionist analysis exposes the prison-industrial-AI complex as one system #corroborates (0.72) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2601