> we expect an ex-offender to get out of jail, get a job, have a stable housing environment, pay taxes, and not break any more laws We expect an ex offender to

> we expect an ex-offender to get out of jail, get a job, have a stable housing environment, pay taxes, and not break any more laws We expect an ex offender to be reformed, but that is not the role of prisons. 'Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves. For 200 years everybody has been saying, "Prisons are failing; all they do is produce new criminals." I would say on the other hand, "They are a success, since that is what has been asked of them." ' https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/specials/foucault-prisons.html https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/specials/foucault-pri...