The prison debate wrongly focuses on correction while normalization mechanisms proliferate unchecked.

Evidence

If there is an overall political issue around the prison, it is not therefore whether it is to be corrective or not; whether the judges, the psychiatrists or the sociologists are to exercise more power in it than the administrators or supervisors; it is not even whether we should have prison or something other than prison. At present, the problem lies rather in the steep rise in the use of these mechanisms of normalization and the wide-ranging powers which, through the proliferation of new disciplines, they bring with them. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 467

Categorization

• XREF: Strongly extends the reader’s panopticon thesis: the real issue is not prison walls but the spread of normalization into all disciplines — exactly how the telescreen normalizes thought in Oceania. — connects to: Reform rhetoric bolsters prison permanence and cannot meet corporate-era challenges — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 266; Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 359; Prison expansion undermines democracy and normalizes incarceration for people of color — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 274 (+1 more)
• SEED: Article angle: ‘the prison question as red herring — surveillance is the product, incarceration merely its showcase.‘

Related

• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote (similarity 0.86)
• Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.85)
• Reform has always been proposed as the remedy for the prison’s failure (similarity 0.83)
• Prison reform rhetoric reinforces the prison’s permanence. (similarity 0.81)
• Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them (similarity 0.81)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.81)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.81)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.81)
• Prison reformers were insiders bound to prison administration, not outside critics (similarity 0.80)
• Prison persists as a detestable solution no alternative replaces (similarity 0.79)
• Prison expansion undermines democracy and normalizes incarceration for people of color (similarity 0.79)
• Modern universal imprisonment was not the reformers’ original design (similarity 0.79)
• The penitentiary was framed as a progressive reform of its era. (similarity 0.79)
• Imprisonment’s rapid acceptance is poorly explained by the prestige of reform models alone (similarity 0.79)
• The prison is totalizing and unceasingly disciplinary, with no exterior (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote #corroborates (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 359
• Prison reform rhetoric reinforces the prison’s permanence. #corroborates (0.90)
• Reform rhetoric bolsters prison permanence and cannot meet corporate-era challenges #corroborates (0.85) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 266
• Prison expansion undermines democracy and normalizes incarceration for people of color #expands (0.72) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 274