Justice Action

The Paradox in Incarceration and Crime
Directed Research Report Prepared for Justice Action download pdf
January 2008
Submitted by C. Daoust
University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law

Prison is a recruitment centre 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.’         
~ Michael Foucault ~