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is a (new) way of acting on bodies that entirely different from penal law. It is concerned with visibility (i.e. Surveillance, or the management of new objects such as the masses or population).

prison is a new way of acting on bodies, and evolves from something entirely different to penal law. 'prison, that concentrated and austere figure of all the disciplines, is not an endogenous element in the penal system. . . .Prison, for its part, is concerned with whatever is visible' (Deleuze F 32). . . panopticism. . . . 'a form that haunted the whole of Foucault's work: the form of the visible, as opposed to the form of whatever can be articulated' (Deleuze F 32). . . for example, at the begining of the nineteenth century masses and populations become visible, and emerge into the light of day at the same time as medical statements manage to articulate new objects' (Deleuze F 32). Form has two meanings: formalized matter (school, prison, hospital), and formalized function (punishment, care, education) (Deleuze F 33)

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture.

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions-- poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed-- which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished. Howard Zinn

is anything that severs and alienates... paradise is the reclaiming commons with the fences thrown down.

Perhaps prison is anything that severs and alienates... paradise is the reclaimed commons with the fences thrown down... and so any step toward connection and communion is a step toward paradise, including those that take the route through jail.

is essentially a highly palpable shortage of space made up for by an equally palatable surplus of time.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time... to an inmate, both are palpable. Joseph Brodsky

is, in America, such that all emphasis is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. Conrad Black

is not meant to eliminate criminal behavior, since it is obvious that they produce recidivism and criminal subcultures. Instead, they distinguish, divide, and distribute illegalities, thereby differentiating them in various manageable forms.

Foucault argues that prisons were not meant to eliminate criminal behavior, otherwise they would have long since disappeared since they produce recidivism and criminal subcultures. Instead prisons, like methadone clinics, distinguish, divide, and distribute illegalities, thereby differentiating them in various manageable forms (Foucault 1979... Rabinow 1998).

is nothing but job insurance for the courts and the police, offering the illusion that they are effective.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance. Frank Herbert

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