Synopsis of Jeremy Bentham's Three Volume Work Panopticon or Inspection House Volume 2 - Postscript Part I
	The second part is a postscript to Volume 1. It discusses the use of the Panopticon for a Penitentiary in more detail. Title Page:- Panopticon Postscript Part 1 Containing FURTHER PARTIULARS AND ALTERATIONS RELATIVE TO THE PLAN OF CONSTRUCTION ORIGINALLY PROPOSED PRINCIPALLY ADAPTED TO THE PURPOSE OF A PANOPTICON PENITENTIARY-HOUSE ------------- By JEREMY BENTHAM OF LINCOLN'S INN, ESQ --------------------------------- LONDON PRINTED FOR T. PAYNE, AT THE MEWS-GATE --------------- 1791 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1 - Principal Particulars Bentham lists the principal changes "settled or altered, since the first hasty design, as described in letter II, and imperfectly represented in Plate I. See Plate II." Annular Well to go up through all stories "crowned by an uninterrupted opening sky-light" Cells enlarged in depth by adding to them the space previously occupied by the Protracted Partitions. Cells "laid 2 into 1" - Prisoners can have company, rather than being kept in solitary confinement. Cells of 6 stories instead of 4 Chapel in the Annular Well. Instead of 3 stories of Inspection Lodge, in the two upper stories Annular Inspection Galleries, backed by the Chapel-Galleries, in the lower story annular Inspection Gallery, enclosing a circular Inspector's Lodge. No cupola Dead Part of the circumference - where the Inspectors lodges are. "Communications, now partly altered, now partly fixed, particularly the only through passage termed the Diametrical Passage, now cut through a sunk story, and at its exit joined by a covered way., projected downwards from the lowermost Inspection Gallery, and terminating in a central look-out for the inspection of the yards." [Note that this appears to be referring to the sunk passages that link the internal cells to the exercise yards. The idea for this is therefore not Robert Adam's, as has been previously suggested]. Polygonal form&ldots;(a double duodecagon, or polygon of 24 sides) instead of circular. Diameter 120 instead of 100 ft Materials. Iron much employed; used for cell galleries, staircases, Doors, and Pillars, "chiefly hollow, instead of brick, stone, or wood.-Plaister proposed for cell floors" (sic). Mode of supplying the building with water, chiefly by an annular cistern under the roof, immediately within the wall. Proposal for heating system, streams of fresh air heated by passing through the inside of vessels, to which fire is applied on th outside. Out lests or external area, settled in subordination to the Inspection principle: the Covered Way a semi-diameter of the area, terminating in a central Look-out. Ref Plate 3. Approach and surrounding fences - See plate 3. " The degree of anxiety, displayed in the plan of exterior fortification there exhibited, had a more particular view of the state of things in Ireland than in England." ----------------------------------- The remaining parts of this book go on to look at each point in more detail. Chapter 2. General View of the Whole Ediface Describes his concept of the building from outside. "The whole of the characteristic part may be conceived as composing of two Towers, one within the other, with the Annular Well between them." Regarding internal floor levels&ldots;."no one story in the interior part coincides in point of level with any one story of the exterior that surrounds it&ldots;&ldots;by being placed about midway between the floor and the ceiling of the lowermost of each pair of cells&ldots;the Inspection Tower affords a perfect view of two stories in the cellular part." The rest of this chapter gives sizes for the parts. Chapter 3. Annular Well. Proposes some fantastical ideas, such as a long pole for the Inspectors in their lodges to open the doors of the cells, and a crane to swing over to the prisoners the Machines and materials required to carry out their daily work, and provisions. Saving the inspectors the "tedious circuitry of a staircase". Chapter 4. Protracted Partitions These were originally proposed because of the "assumed necessity of absolute solitude&ldots;now relinquished". Chapter 5. Cells, Double Instead of Single Acknowledges that solitude enables you to "screw up the punishment to a degree of barbarous perfection never yet given to it in any English prison. Double cells suppose two prisoners at least in company, possibly three or four."
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