Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America was intended to be a study of 
Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America was intended to be a study of these institutions. Jeremy Bentham designed one of these called the Panopticon, and Philip Zimbardo simulated one of these at the University of (*) Stanford. Britain colonized Australia to serve as this institution, and San Francisco's Alcatraz Island was home to one of these buildings. For 10 points, name this type of institution that houses criminals.
Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America was intended to be a study of these institutions.
prison (accept logical equivalents such as jail)