A panopticon is a circular prison or detention centre conceived in the 18th century by English social theorist Jeremy Bentham. The structure was designed to place inmates in rooms laid out in a ring facing inwards, so that wardens in a central tower or 'inspection house' could observe them at all times, without being seen themselves.
Bentham believed the panopticon to be "a mill for grinding rogues honest," and while he did attempt to develop these structures as care-centres and hospitals
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