1 Jun 1787 Jahr - Jeremy Bentham's prison design

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Jeremy Bentham was a social reformer inspired by George Paul's prison. He wanted to improve the efficiency of prisons, and worked on a prison design called the Panopticon.

The Panopticon:
- would have needed few warders
- would have reformed prisoners through useful work, the products of which would have been sold
- was an unpopular idea

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