ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the five themes; choice, responsibility, goals, context, and future, are persist across all of the empirical data sets, and highlights their interconnections and constituting the impossibility of their separation from one another. These threads weave the individuals' stories tightly into the fabric of the institutional story, and strengthen the bonds that tether them to both the prison and to similar meta-narratives in the greater cultural milieu. The chapter illustrates the five themes' discursive power as ultimate and effective disciplinary techniques. The application of these ideas by the state onto individuals through rhetoric and coercion defines the subtle and seemingly benign nature of their use as tools of social control. These themes, found in policies and programs, are the invisible bars of institutional and social regulation. They are the panoptic, regulatory and indisputable forces of discursive discipline, crafted by expert knowledge and, therefore, unquestionably relevant.
