panopticon in A Sentence

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Figure 6.3: Design from the Panopticon prison, first proposed by Jeremy Bentham.

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First proposed in late 18th century by Jeremy Bentham as an architecture for prisons, the Panopticon is the physical manifestation of surveillance(Figure 6.3).

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Unfortunately, the bicentennial of another important document that restricted liberty has been virtually unnoticed-- the 1791 publication of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon or the Inspection House.

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The prison was designed in the Panopticon style- the wings radiating out like spokes from a half wheel- to allow the wardens to observe inmates without them knowing they were being watched.

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Panopticon concept of the design is to allow all(pan-) inmates of an institution to be observed(-opticon) by a single watchman without the inmates being able to tell whether or not they are being watched.

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