Rab Butler's Psychotherapeutic Prison

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Life inside a therapeutic prison: ‘Look, we’ve done some terrible things ...’

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Grendon is the world’s first dedicated psychotherapeutic prison.

The NHS reports that 60 to 70% of prisoners in the UK have a personality disorder.

Prisoners volunteer to enter the therapeutic community (TC) from the general prison estate.

The BBC recorded leading forensic psychiatrist Gwen Adshead's third Reith Lecture here last week .

Psychiatrists think we [psychiatrists] just prescribe drugs and don’t really try to understand people.

Psychotherapists can be friends of both, but the split in psychological treatment is that therapists seek to deliver an understanding, whereas psychologists believe in behavioural programmes.

The psychological model has always dominated offender management and recidivism.

Grendon is a joint site with Spring Hill , the open prison next door, but prisoners across both cost 38,000 a year each.

HMP Send in Surrey is significantly more expensive: 65,000 per prisoner per year.

Inmates who can’t cope emotionally will end up back in a category B prison.

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