HIST 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Moral Economy, Panopticon, John Stuart Mill
11 Oct 2017
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In themselves, prisons, workhouses, asylums and reformatories are only of antique interest. Key: out of sight and out of mind. We do not know what is going on inside. They initially punish themselves within the prison due to the rule of silence. Going to look at how prisons become more rational in nature. ** they need to see the act being done and the punishment occurring right after in order for others to create the psychological association between crime and consequences. Have 15 minutes to get ready before inspection and for work. Hammock, shelf (mug, dish, soap, towel, bible), bucket to clear. 18 months of their sentence in solitary confinement reduced to 12 and then 9. Talk from anyone on the outside, they will be punished (make sounds on their door or window and willing to risk punishment for this due to the rule of silence.
