The two prison models framed punishment as death and rebirth

Evidence

In this closed cell, this temporary sepulchre, the myths of resurrection arise easily enough. After night and silence, the regenerated life. Auburn was society itself reduced to its bare essentials. Cherry Hill was life annihilated and begun again. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 366

Categorization

  • XREF: The ‘regenerated life after night and silence’ resonates with Winston’s reeducation in Oceania — the idea that the prisoner must be symbolically killed and reborn into a new moral self. — connects to: The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 506; Karma doctrine justifies subordination by framing rebirth as punishment

Broader Connections