All those jokes my dancers made about being drawn and quartered with the elastics - not funny.
Anyway,
The point of this post was to discuss the philosophy/theory of panopticism: the idea that when a person is being observed, or believes they are being observed, they act differently. In the case discussed by Foucault a cylindrical prison with a watch tower in the center, the Panopticon, would be ideal since the prisoners would all behave under the assumption of constant surveillance.
Panopticon: