John K. Simon

Michel Foucault on Attica: An Interview

This interview was conducted soon after Foucault’s visit to the prison at Attica after studying exclusion and prison reform in France. He uses the metaphor that at first sight you have the impression you are visiting more than just a factory, that you are visiting the inside of a machine.

interview, Michel Foucault, penal exclusion

Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 26-34