The Panopticon Author:Jenni Fagan Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just about every adult she has ever met. Sitting in the back of a police car, she finds herself headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders where the social workers are as suspicious as its residents. (Pa`nop... more »´ti`con (noun). A circular prison with cells so constructed that the prisoners can be observed at all times) [Greek panoptos 'seen by all'] But Anais can't remember the events that have led her there, or why she has blood on her school uniform... Amid the institution's crescent-shaped buildings and all-seeing watchtower, Anais befriends a group of ragtag ruffians and delves into her past, endlessly stoned on whatever drug she can lay her hands on and concerned she's being watched by an entity she calls "the experiment".