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.

Wikiproject Prisons
If anyone's interested, I've proposed a new wikiproject for the creation and improvement of articles regarding specific prisons, internment camps, and detention centers here. --Cdogsimmons (talk) 01:57, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

William Williams
The William Williams wikilink was pointing to a disambiguation page. I am unsure which (if any) of the William Williams listed designed this prison so I removed the wikilink altogether. If anybody knows, please pipe the link to the correct William Williams. --81.23.54.142 (talk) 21:57, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Aerial photograph
I have an aerial photograph of Millbank prison. Do the panel think this would assist the article? I note there is a lot of visual material and I wouldn't want someone to remove my image for being non-notable. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 04:14, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I think the article could take one more image, and if it's the photo I'm thinking of (taken from a balloon), it's certainly visually striking. GrindtXX (talk) 14:38, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

National Penitentiary
"... his proposed panopticon prison as Britain's new National Penitentiary." Neither of the references appear to support the statement that it was the National Penitentiary. Was this term used in the Act? Rjm at sleepers (talk) 10:09, 28 August 2022 (UTC)