Michel Foucault Prison Quotations

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

The soul is the prison of the body.

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.