The present book, by assembling primary source materials and interviews with participants tells the story of the GIP. From this group, emerges both modern critical prison studies and the work that led to Foucault's Discipline and Punish. He prevailed upon Foucault to lead an inquest into the condition of the prisons in France, and, when the latter accepted, the Groupe d'information sur les prisons or GIP was born. But quickly it became clear that this was not a sustainable position, that the deprivation of information and of humane treatment were, in fact, intolerable for all prisoners and that they would be perceived as such by those beyond the prisons' walls.ĭaniel Defert, the partner of Michel Foucault, was a political activist associated with the GP. Within prison, the initial goal of the GP was to have the party leaders declared political prisoners, which would give them access to newspapers, counsel, and the ability to communicate with one another, rights denied to common-law prisoners. Immediately, those leaders sought to continue the struggle inside prison, even as various intellectuals came to their defense outside, with Jean-Paul Sartre, for example, assuming the editorship of their banned newspaper, La cause du peuple and distributing it in the streets. Its leaders were rounded up and imprisoned. In 1970, the Gaullist government of Georges Pompidou, in the aftermath of the 1968 Paris student rebellion, declared the Maoist party with which many student leaders and others outside the traditional left were affiliated, the Gauche Proletarienne or GP illegal.
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