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The Panopticon Prison
Jeremy Bentham came up with his idea of the ultimate way to control inmates at great cost-savings for the government. He created a prison, an ideal prison, that he called the panopticon. It sounds like a transformer. Pan means all and optics are seen. So we're going to have an all-seeing prison that in some ways won't even need a warden for the jail. Everyone can see into the cells, but in the middle will be like this central guard tower, but the guard tower is in the dark.