The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish

Evidence

The emergence of the prison marks the institutionalization of the power to punish, or, to be more precise: will the power to punish (with the strategic aim adopted in the late eighteenth century, the reduction of popular illegality) be better served by concealing itself beneath a general social function, in the ‘punitive city’, or by investing itself in a coercive institution, in the enclosed space of the ‘reformatory’? — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 209

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 418; The penal apparatus morally reeducated the poor into legalism — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 436; The carceral system created the norm as a new mixed form of law — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 464 (+12 more)

Related

• The penal apparatus morally reeducated the poor into legalism (similarity 0.87)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.85)
• Penal reform sought not less punishment but more universal, deeper social control (similarity 0.85)
• The public spectacle of punishment gave way to enclosed hierarchized detention within decades. (similarity 0.85)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.85)
• The penitentiary made incarceration itself the punishment for the first time. (similarity 0.84)
• Modern universal imprisonment was not the reformers’ original design (similarity 0.84)
• The birth of the prison is analyzed only within the French penal system. (similarity 0.84)
• The carceral regime extracts knowledge that converts punishment into a productive operation. (similarity 0.84)
• Carceral power is naturalized by borrowing the rationality of curing and educating (similarity 0.84)
• The prison’s failures were denounced at its very inception (similarity 0.83)
• The court is subordinate to the prison, not the reverse. (similarity 0.83)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.83)
• European and American punishment was entirely reorganized in less than a century (similarity 0.83)
• The penitentiary apparatus substitutes the delinquent for the offender. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• The penitentiary made incarceration itself the punishment for the first time. #expands (0.80) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 63
• Punishment’s meaning is fashioned through institutional symbiotic relationships #expands (0.78) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 283
• Punishment shifted from sovereign vengeance to ensuring no crime goes unpunished #qualifies (0.75)
• Subtler punishment masked sovereign power rather than making it more humane #complicates (0.72)