Foucault's Panopticism

The Panopticism was certainly difficult to read and comprehend. After reading it for the first time, I did not understand it. After reading and skimming a couple times, I began to increase my understanding. But after all of that I still do not fully understand the Panopticism. Foucault has a theory about society, comparing jails, schools, and factories, because we are constantly being observed. Foucault’s persona in literature does influence the difficulty of the reading. Some of the vocabulary left me puzzled, so I used a dictionary as a resource. The organization of how Foucault presents his thoughts and theory, I would have preferred to be little bit more straight forward. But reading more than once does help solve this problem on understanding