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 ...

Bentham would go on to design “the panopticon” (pictured ... We get people into better shape.” The same year, Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said that the UK’s then ...