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

The Haarlem Koepelgevangenis ("dome prison") is just one of three so-called panopticons in the Netherlands: circular prisons with a central watch tower, built in the 19th century and designed to ...

Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of prison architecture at the end of the 18th century. The design was ingenious. It ...

The paradigmatic form of this “power-knowledge” is the model prison or “panopticon” imagined by 19th century utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham. This prison, ideally, should be circular.

After 20 years of being completely abandoned, the municipal administration restored the Panopticon of Ibagué ... announced that the old cells of the prison were also renovated to now function ...

This brutality paves the way for Sinners like you to work in indentured servitude to your Panopticon – a prison city – earning your right to essential things like lying down, or frivolities ...

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 ...