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Jermey Bentham,
Samuel Bentham and Willey Reveley, Penitentiary Panopticon
1791.
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Bentham's
Panopticon has considerable historical importance
in the history of penal reform, having been one of the most
carefully elaborated blueprints for the systematic penal
institutions which began to replace the gaols and bridewells,
medieval in origin, which had been intended only as holding
stations before criminals were fined, sent to the …
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