2025-03-22
41 分钟The Economist.
Britain's prisons are horrible places.
They're old, overcrowded and under-resourced.
And then there's what happens inside them.
They're extraordinarily violent, with thousands of assaults every year,
both on staff and other prisoners.
Drug use is routine.
Sadly, suicide is not uncommon.
Even when inmates get out, most go on to commit another offence.
This crisis has been decades in the making, presided over by parties of both stripes.
So it made sense that soon after Labour was elected to power last year,
it launched a review of the country's jails.
The problems the British government identified have echoes throughout the world.
No matter what some politicians say, prison doesn't work, or at least most of them don't.
But today we want to tell you about Britain's one success story.
Grendan Prison in Buckinghamshire has found a different way of doing things.
I'm Rosie Bloor and today on The Weeknd Intelligence,
my colleague Tom Sasse meets former inmates from Grendan Prison and staff who worked there to find out why it works and whether other jails could replicate it.
Once you actually give someone the chance to change and open up their eyes for them,
you know, they can't shut up again.