o The plague-stricken town, the panoptic establishment- the differences are important o It is polyvalent in its applications, it serves to reform prisoners, but also to treat patients, to instruct schoolchildren to confine the insane to supervise workers, to put beggars and idlers to work 1111  The plague-stricken town, the panoptic establishment - the differences are important.  It is polyvalent in its applications; it serves to reform prisoners, but also to treat patients, to instruct schoolchildren, to confine the insane, to supervise workers, to put beggars and idlers to work