The prison’s failures were denounced at its very inception

Evidence

There was in fact a telescoping or in any case a different distribution of these elements. And, just as the project of a corrective technique accompanied the principle of punitive detention, the critique of the prison and its methods appeared very early on, in those same years 1820–45; indeed, it was embodied in a number of formulations which – figures apart – are today repeated almost unchanged. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 401

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘reform as its own remedy’ argument that resonates with Milgrom’s institutional-evolution work and general theories of institutional self-perpetuation. — connects to: The prison’s apparent failure is actually its designed success at producing delinquency — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 425; The silent penitentiary system collapsed from cost and overcrowding. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3410

Related

• Reform has always been proposed as the remedy for the prison’s failure (similarity 0.87)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.85)
• The prison’s apparent failure is actually its designed success at producing delinquency (similarity 0.84)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.83)
• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote (similarity 0.83)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.83)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.82)
• The silent penitentiary system collapsed from cost and overcrowding. (similarity 0.82)
• Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.82)
• Imprisonment’s rapid acceptance is poorly explained by the prestige of reform models alone (similarity 0.81)
• The prison and the delinquent are mutually produced in a single technological ensemble (similarity 0.80)
• The penitentiary was framed as a progressive reform of its era. (similarity 0.80)
• Modern universal imprisonment was not the reformers’ original design (similarity 0.80)
• The birth of the prison is analyzed only within the French penal system. (similarity 0.79)
• Prisons demonstrably fail to reduce the crime rate (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The prison’s apparent failure is actually its designed success at producing delinquency #contradicts (0.95) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 425