There's a lot about Bentham's Panopticon idea at Port Arthur in Tasmania and you can actually go in and see how it worked and what it looked like (including these tiny strips for exercise and fresh air (one at a time) and the chapel (which of course everyone was forced to attend as it was good for their troubled souls) in which basically everyone was in their own private box looking down at the priest.
What really blows you away is the knowledge that this was a liberal reformist approach compared to what had gone before
What really blows you away is the knowledge that this was a liberal reformist approach compared to what had gone before
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