The UK's home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has been criticised after naming the panopticon as her model for the British criminal justice system. In an interview with Tony Blair, Ms Mahmood – who served ...

The architect of the yet-to-be-built mental health wing of the New Orleans jail is pushing back against critics of his controversial design, which he says was recommended by a team of experts and is ...

Surveillance can take on many forms, and they’re only getting more numerous. Governments, religions and social media can all lead to the feeling — or the reality — that we’re being watched, with ...

Not quite a household word (beyond academia, anyway), “panopticon” nonetheless turns up in news stories with surprising frequency—here and here, for example, and here and here. The Greek roots in its ...