Full Idea
Foucault's thesis is that disciplinary techniques introduced for criminals became the model for other modern sites of control (schools, hospitals, factories), so that prison discipline pervades all of society.
Gist of Idea
Prisons gradually became our models for schools, hospitals and factories
Source
report of Michel Foucault (Discipline and Punish [1977]) by Gary Gutting - Foucault: a very short introduction 8
Book Reference
Gutting,Gary: 'Foucault' [OUP 2005], p.81
A Reaction
Someone recently designed Foucault Monopoly, where every location is a prison. All tightly controlled organisations, such as a medieval monastery, or the Roman army, will inevitably share many features.