Talk:Millbank Prison

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Yes, not built on all the site. --The military hospital (now partially Tate storage and being converted to an art school) must have been on it too, with that map it wouldnt be too hard to work it out. Justinc 11:56, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Was this a panopticon? Panopticon links here but doesn't explain. Does anybody know? Rusl 20:38, 14 May 2006 (UTC)rusl

the link saying it was was recently removed. There seems to be some dispute. I think I do have a reference for it somewhere one way or the other, will have to find it. Justinc 10:56, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm reliably informed that it wasn't a Panopticon. It didn't fulfil the Benthamite requirement of providing a mechanism for "guarding the guards" and neither did it do a good job of enabling surveillance of the inmates. Despite it's impressively forbidding architecture, there is anecdotal evidence that its maze-like structure meant that guards had to make chalk marks on the walls so they could find their way around.