Discover the chilling history of the panopticon prison, imagined by Jeremy Bentham as a means to optimize organization and ...

Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of ...

All three have been closed in the past decade, as part of the country's drive to reduce its prison population, and are being "repurposed". The panopticon, first envisioned by British philosopher ...

To Foucault, the panopticon was a metaphor for a power system that influenced all parts of society, from prisons, to hospitals, to factories. Wherever you go, and whatever you do, Big Brother ...