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Panopticon Prison 2

Location: Isla de la Juventud, Cuba
Latitude & Longitude: 21.877560, -82.766380
Views: 1068   Posted By: bmeyer2 (04/04/2008)
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bmeyer2 (04/04/2008)

Panopticon-style prisons were first conceived by Jeremy Benthan, an English philosopher, in 1785. The design allows prison administration to observe all prisoners without the prisoners' knowledge.

Lyn (10/04/2009)

The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham was an England jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was the brother of Samuel Bentham. He was a political radical, and a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law....
 in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched.

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