The prison form preexisted and supplied the model for legal punishment

Evidence

It would not be true to say that the prison was born with the new codes. The prison form antedates its systematic use in the penal system. It had already been constituted outside the legal apparatus when, throughout the social body, procedures were being elaborated for distributing individuals, fixing them in space, classifying them, extracting from them the maximum in time and forces, training their bodies, coding their continuous behaviour, maintaining them in perfect visibility, forming around them an apparatus of observation, registration and recording, constituting on them a body of knowledge that is accumulated and centralized. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 354

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The court is subordinate to the prison, not the reverse. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 469; Model workers’ housing in Lille imposed prison-like moral discipline with expulsion for offenses — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 575

Related

• The court is subordinate to the prison, not the reverse. (similarity 0.89)
• The birth of the prison is analyzed only within the French penal system. (similarity 0.85)
• Model workers’ housing in Lille imposed prison-like moral discipline with expulsion for offenses (similarity 0.83)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.82)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.82)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.82)
• Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them (similarity 0.82)
• Systems of punishment correlate strictly with systems of production (similarity 0.79)
• The penal apparatus morally reeducated the poor into legalism (similarity 0.79)
• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents (similarity 0.79)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.78)
• Imprisonment’s rapid acceptance is poorly explained by the prestige of reform models alone (similarity 0.78)
• The prison is totalizing and unceasingly disciplinary, with no exterior (similarity 0.78)