A proposed type of this place allowed a single watchman to observe all the residents, who could not tell if they were being watched.
A theorist about these locations at Cambridge whose models have strongly influenced American policies is named Andrew von Hirsch. The failure to build one of these places led one thinker to propose the idea of "sinister interest" in the government. A book primarily about these places emphasizes January 22, 1840, as a key date, but notes another important date was when a child said "what a pity I left" one of these places "so soon." That book, whose subtitle is about the "birth" of these locations, begins by contrasting the death of Robert-François Damiens (dom-YEN) with the daily schedule of residents at Mettray. A proposed type of this place allowed a single watchman to observe all the residents, who could not tell if they were being watched. For 10 points, Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon was a proposed type of what location, the focus of much of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish?
A theorist about these locations at Cambridge whose models have strongly influenced American policies is named Andrew von Hirsch.
prison [or jail; or penitentiary; or penal colony; or reformatory; accept obvious equivalents] &lt;Cheyne&gt;