This essay revisits Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, perhaps the foundational figure of the study of the prison, to recover a dimension of the project wholly omitted in Michel Foucault’s canonical reading in Discipline and Punish. Nowhere does Foucault mention Bentham’s insistence that the prison be run by a private contractor. With Bentham's penal theory characteristically derived from his account of human psychology, the contract and private profit are essential to the functioning of the Panopticon, because they align the jailer's duty with their self-interest. Bentham built profit and market imperatives into the fabric of the Panopticon, always envisioned as a place of economic production. The contract-Panopticon and its political economy are vital antecedents to the neoliberal penality theorized by Loïc Wacquant and Bernard E. Harcourt, even as they problematize the statism inherited from Foucault and the chronological implications of the prefix “neo.” Bentham was only the theorist of a marketization of governance pervasive in his own time and ever since, raising the question of whether punishment has ever been a purely state function.

本文重温了杰里米·边沁 (Jeremy Bentham) 的全景监狱 (Panopticon)，它可能是监狱研究的基础人物，以恢复米歇尔·福柯 (Michel Foucault) 在《规训与惩罚》 ( Discipline and Punish)的经典阅读中完全省略的项目维度. 福柯没有提到边沁坚持监狱由私人承包商管理。边沁的刑罚理论典型地源自他对人类心理学的解释，契约和私人利润对于全景监狱的运作至关重要，因为它们使狱卒的职责与他们的自身利益保持一致。Bentham 在 Panopticon 的结构中建立了利润和市场需求，一直被设想为经济生产场所。契约全景监狱及其政治经济学是 Loïc Wacquant 和 Bernard E. Harcourt 所提出的新自由主义惩罚理论的重要前身，尽管他们对从福柯继承的国家主义和前缀“neo”的时间顺序含义提出了问题。边沁只是他那个时代以及从那时起普遍存在的治理市场化的理论家，