Under Panopticon Surveillance Built in the shape of a star, this prison was modeled after the panopticon — an architecture of control, where one central observation point could oversee every cell. Silence, symmetry, surveillance. It wasn’t just a prison; it was a concept, designed to keep men obedient through the mere possibility of being watched. We arrived before sunrise. The air was cool and heavy with that strange stillness that comes just before daylight. Getting in had become much harder —