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Auteur principal:	Elliott, Jacob Alexander
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Publié:	Zenodo 2026
Accès en ligne:	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18764949
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The modern carceral state operates on an unexamined assumption inher- ited from the eighteenth-century Quaker penitentiary movement: that isolation produces spiritual reformation. Two centuries of empirical ev- idence demonstrate that isolation does not reform. It decompiles. The clinical literature on solitary confinement documents a characteristic syndrome— hallucination, identity fragmentation, temporal distortion, paranoia— that the phenomenology stack identifies as A4 collapse: the progressive failure of the semantic coupling condition that maintains phenomenal calibration. This monograph introduces the Sanction Inefficiency Index (SII), defined as the ratio of architectural damage inflicted on the subject to the deterrent signal transmitted by the sanction. A sanction is efficient when it transmits the maximum behavioral correction at the minimum cost to both the state and the subject’s cognitive architecture. A sanction is inefficient when it inflicts structural damage to the subject’s identity that exceeds, by any multiplicative factor, the informational content of the correction. By this metric, solitary confinement is the least efficient sanction in the modern penal repertoire: maximum fiscal cost, maximum architec- tural damage, minimum deterrent signal. The Sanction Inefficiency In- dex for twelve months of administrative segregation is 11.9—the subject absorbs nearly twelve times more structural damage than the behavioral correction requires. The historical corporal sanction—calibrated physi- cal punishment under medical supervision—achieves an SII of approxi- mately 0.3: the subject absorbs less structural damage than the informa- tional content of the correction, because the excess is discharged through the body rather than accumulated in the identity. This monograph does not argue that corporal punishment is pleasant, just, or desirable. It argues that the current system is measurably worse by  every metric except the one that actually governs policy: the visibility of the suffering to the administrator.

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