The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the ...

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

Work on the construction of a high-security prison in Narela, whose design is inspired by the Cellular Jail in the Andaman ...

Stateville was built in 1925 as a maximum-security prison with state-of-the-art panopticon structures where every cell could be observed from a central guard station.

From the time she entered her prison cell Thursday morning (5 June), it only took Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of Pussy Riot, about 15 minutes to start screaming. It was a high-pitched ...

Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database is the final step in ...

Nadya Tolokonnikova to Stage 10-Day Performance from Inside Prison Cell The first durational work by the Pussy Riot co-founder. Art May 21, 2025 2.4K ...

In the Panopticon, inmates always know a guard could be watching but never if one truly is. This is the key to the prison's power, argued French philosopher Michel Foucault: it becomes omniscient ...

In 1785 English philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed the perfect prison: Cells circle a tower from which an unseen guard can observe any inmate at will. As far as a prisoner knows, at any given ...

The panopticon at Kilmainham Gaol is one of the most famous examples of a panopticon prison in the world. It was built in the early 19th century and was used to house prisoners during the Irish ...

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.