that the gaoler will have no salary - will cost nothing to the nation." As the watchmen cannot be seen, they need not be on duty at all times, effectively leaving the watching to the watched. The Panopticon was intended to be cheaper than the prisons of his time, as it required fewer staff "Allow me to construct a prison on this model," Bentham requested to a Committee for the Reform of Criminal Law, "I will be the gaoler. Bentham supplemented this principle with the idea of contract management that is, an administration by contract as opposed to trust, where the director would have a pecuniary interest in lowering the average rate of mortality. Conceptual history "Morals reformed- health preserved - industry invigorated - instruction diffused - public burthens lightened - Economy seated, as it were, upon a rock - the gordian knot of the poor-law not cut, but untied - all by a simple idea in Architecture!" īentham derived the idea from the plan of a military school in Paris designed for easy supervision, itself conceived by his brother Samuel who arrived at it as a solution to the complexities involved in the handling of large numbers of men.
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