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"Grendon opened in 1962 as an experimental psychiatric prison to provide treatment for prisoners with antisocial personality disorder. Today it is run by a prison service governor but continues to operate a unique regime in that its six wings are all autonomous therapeutic communities"--Provided by publisher

(Publisher-supplied data) 1 Prison-based democratic therapeutic communities: Introducing HMP Grendon Alisa Stevens 2 Dovegate Therapeutic Community: Bid, birth, growth and survival Eric Cullen and Alan Miller 3 The Van der Hoeven Clinic: A flexible and innovative forensic psychiatric hospital based on therapeutic community principles. Judith de Boer- van Schaik and Frans Deerks 4 Concept therapeutic communities in America and elsewhere Douglas Lipton 5 The development of an adapted therapeutic community within a DSPD setting John Shine 6 Putting principles into practice: The "Good Lives" model Michael Brooks 7 Personality disorder: Using therapeutic communities as an integrative approach to addressing risk Richard Shuker 8 Psychodrama as part of core therapy at HMP Grendon Jinnie Jeffreys 9 Art therapy as a means of assessing readiness for treatment Bill Wylie 10 Undertaking therapy at Grendon with men who have committed sexual offences Geraldine Akerman 11 Reflections on Grendon: Interviews with men who are about to leave Elizabeth Sullivan 12 "This can't be real": Continuity at Grendon Lorna Rhodes 13 The experience of officers in a therapeutic community prison: An interpretive phenomenological analysis James McManus 14 Emotional influence and empathy in prison-based communities Karen Niven, David Holman and Peter Totterdell 15 The quality of life of prisoners and staff at Grendon Guy Shefer 16 Suicide and self-harm at Grendon Adrienne Rivlin 17 Changes in prison offending among residents of a prison-based therapeutic community Margaret Newton 18 PROQ Changes in interpersonal relating following treatment at Grendon Michelle Newberry and Richard Shuker 19 The experiences of Black and minority ethnic (BME) prisoners in a therapeutic community prison Michelle Newberry 20 Research in prisons Martin Fisher, Carol Ireland and Elizabeth Sullivan

Abstract:Twenty years ago we conducted an ethnographic study of Grendon in which we examined the incongruous cohabitation of a prison and a therapeutic community (TC) within a single establishment. We concluded that the partnership between the two institutions was inevitably unequal and that, whilst the prison allowed the TC a sphere of influence, penal power prevailed whenever its institutional interests were threatened. In 2010 we revisited the establishment to explore how the relationship between penal and therapeutic functions had evolved over the intervening 20 years, a period marked by considerable change in the wider penal landscape. This article considers how these broader transformations in penal policy have been negotiated within the institution and what their impact has been on the ability of the TCs to maintain their authority, legitimacy and therapeutic integrity. We conclude with some preliminary thoughts about the protection of therapeutic work in prisons and the devolution of power and responsibility across government departments for therapeutic opportunities and the sentence management of serious offenders.

Abstract:This article brings together published and unpublished material that documents prisoners' experiences of Grendon in their words. This covers the period from shortly after Grendon opened in 1962 to the present day. Issues to be looked at are the pre‐admission procedure, reasons for applying to Grendon, the reception process and life on the assessment and induction unit. The challenges of living on the main therapeutic communities (TCs) will be described. How staff relationships at Grendon differ from those in other establishments will be explained. Also described will be the experiences of those who did not transfer onto one of the five main TCs within Grendon as well as those who found that Grendon was not for them. What is apparent throughout is the similarity of prisoner experiences from the time Grendon opened until the present day.

On 1 April 1993 the Prison Service in mainland Britain acquired an
agency status. This is in conjunction with increasing news of
contracting out of services and outright privatization. Raises the
questions of whether the whole concept of agency status is a prelude to
privatization; what the implications are for industrial relations; and
is it part of the plan to marginalize the Prison Officers′ Association
(POA)? Concludes that the change of emphasis to agency status will not
address the current penal crisis in Britain.

Abstract: Early in 2009, the newly appointed Director of Offender Management, South‐East Region, asked the Governor of Grendon to lead a flagship project to improve the quality of prisoner‐staff relationships in the region's prisons. A recent HM Chief Inspector's report on Parkhurst had been highly critical, while Grendon has been repeatedly praised by HM Chief Inspector for its outstanding and excellent prisoner‐staff relationships. The flagship project, now an innovation project, encompasses a wide range of initiatives throughout the South‐East Region, one of which seeks to identify aspects of the Grendon regime which could be distilled and transferred to other prisons in order to assist in improving prisoner engagement and interactions with staff. This article describes how the Head of Psychology at Grendon, along with a group of Grendon prisoners, have set about distilling aspects of the Grendon regime with a view to exporting them to HMP Isle of Wight. This work forms part of a developing link between the two prisons.

HMP Grendon hosts the UK's only prison-based therapeutic community, inhabited by around 200 residents, almost all convicted of crimes against the person, and about half of whom have killed. This is an inside account of the work, and the theory behind the work, carried out at a prison which not only exemplifies the best in prison philosophy, but also a pioneering approach to the treatment of psychopaths. Previously the Director of Therapies at Grendon, Mark Morris provides a unique insight into the work of this experimental prison regime. He tracks its history from the 1950s, and describes how

Surveys the work of the person charged with ensuring the efficient and fair running of the prison service. Looks at the typical career background of Chief Inspectors, their ideal approach to problems and issues they encounter, and the reports or reviews they write in the course of their work. (RSM)