I want it. That's the most important thing. You've got to want it. He told Oxford crown court that he had maintained fantasies of assaulting and killing a young girl throughout his treatment. John Shine, Grendon's director of research and development, is realistic about the prison's achievements.
Some people here make enormous changes.
Other people we have to be extremely cautious about when assessing the real impact of therapy. Mark Morris, the prison's director of therapy, adds that the Grendon way is not necessarily the right way for every prison or every prisoner. One of the problems we have is the issue of people who are here to genuinely work on themselves and people who are here because they see it as an easy route. There are people trying to manipulate the structure, trying to get on top of the therapeutic community process to work in their own nefarious ways. Where that manipulative, destructive impulse is at its height, we need settings which are more control-focused.