01: Victorian Spies | The History Of Surveillance

Duration: 52'01''

Synopsis

Jeremy Bentham’s revolutionary prison, the Panopticon, where all inmates were constantly visible, spawned a culture of mug-shots and fingerprints, and even forced internal examinations of suspected prostitutes.

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