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To what extent can Grendon be considered a Maverick prison? Maverick: "A person who thinks and acts in an independent way, often behaving differently from the expected or usual way" (Cambridge Dictionary) Ongoing debates surrounding the idea of prisons have highlighted how prisons aren't working. HMP Grendon has become a landmark in British prison history as a prison that has sought alternative methods of treatment for the incapacitation of offenders. This paper will outline the methods used by Grendon in the prison's attempts to rehabilitate offenders and how those methods compare to those currently employed in 'regular' prisons. It will finally be argued that Grendon, supported by a number of empirical findings, has taken the risks and gained the results that ensure the prison's status as a 'Maverick' prison. HMP Grendon is a category B prison outside Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. It opened in 1963, in a period of great social change which saw "...homosexuality legalised, the...

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