Language as a weapon

"To condemn someone to a perpetual prison term is to transpose a medical or psychological diagnosis onto the judicial sentence; it is to saqy, "He is irredeemable." To impose a detminate sentence on someone is to ask a medical, psychological, or pedagogical practice to give a content to the judicial decision that punishes."

Foucault, To Punish is the most Difficult Thing There Is

The marking of a criminal, or perhaps rather the creation of one, is based on the judicial and medical language that occurs before conviction. There, the narrative is constructed which shows that the accused is predisposed to commit the crime. No bother his very predisposition labeled on him may be out of his control. To send someone to prison for life is to give up on them, to make the extreme discision that they will never be able to control themselves, that they will never be able to be just.