The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings

Evidence

This idea of an apparatus for transforming human beings is already to be found in Hanway’s project for a ‘reformatory’: ‘The idea of a hospital and that of a malefactor are incompatible; but let us try ito make the prison an authentic and effective reformatory, instead of it being like the others a school of vice’ (Hanway, 52). — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 506

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s panopticon thesis: the prison-as-transformative-apparatus rationale is the same productive logic telescreens later interiorize. — connects to: Architecture transforms inhabitants into docile, knowable subjects. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 267; Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 357; Isolation plus supervised assembly was meant to train prisoners into social individuals — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 365 (+11 more)

Related

• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.88)
• The prison cell reworks a Christian monastic technique toward state-directed moral conversion. (similarity 0.86)
• The penal apparatus morally reeducated the poor into legalism (similarity 0.83)
• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote (similarity 0.83)
• Foucault writes the history of the present through the prison (similarity 0.82)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.82)
• Reform has always been proposed as the remedy for the prison’s failure (similarity 0.82)
• Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them (similarity 0.82)
• The penitentiary apparatus substitutes the delinquent for the offender. (similarity 0.81)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.81)
• Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.81)
• The penitentiary was framed as a progressive reform of its era. (similarity 0.81)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.81)
• Prison education once enabled transformative self-creation even against the regime (similarity 0.79)
• Prison expresses bourgeois labor’s logic rather than rehabilitation’s aim (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The prison cell reworks a Christian monastic technique toward state-directed moral conversion. #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 199
• Reform has been built into the prison since its origin #corroborates (0.85)
• Prison education once enabled transformative self-creation even against the regime #corroborates (0.80) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 146