ause of its power, and the individual is an object upon power enacts power holders' various ideas of control. He illustrates the point with a description of Mettray, a French juvenile-detention center. There control does not necessarily entail brute force, but it may entail other forms of coercion, including isolation from the general population. Mettray inhabitants, says Foucault, were sent there in consequence of a judicial determination based on recommendations of credentialed physicians, essentially with the full force and effect of other legally sanctioned protocols--not unlike the legal sanctions of the marriage license that would have bound Mrs. Wright to Mr. Wright at a time in American history when divorce was unthinkable and when divorced women in particular were socially is
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