The word Panopticon is a neologism created by the English lawyer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832). It is a construction whose design makes it possible to observe it from the totality of an interior surface from one point of view.
The creation of this design is due to a British philosopher who envisioned a prison where all inmates could be under the guard's field of vision, without the prisoners realizing if they were watching.
The Panopticon original Bentham performs an installation of a tower in the center of the building so that the watchman could observe everything that happened in the building, which is a place in a ring, where there was a courtyard in the middle of the construction with a tower in the center where the ring was divided into small rooms that faced the interior and exterior and in each one of them were the objectives of the constitution, which was a child learning to write, a worker working, a prisoner atoning for his guilt and a madman updating his follies, etc…
The French physiologist Michel Foucault, expanded from prisons to other facilities, such as schools or industries and became a control technique taking into account the panopticon design where they found a circular construction with a courtyard, the watchtower and in the center was the ring, which was also divided into cells with exits to the outside and inside, so that the guard can observe different types of variations.
