HMP Grendon, Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire

Photograph taken 1996 © Historic England Archive ref: aa96_05435

A view inside a prison cell at HMP Grendon. The prison was opened in 1962 as an 'experimental prison' to provide therapy for prisoners with antisocial personality disorders. It had a psychiatric unit for the treatment of the prisoners.

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Buckinghamshire Grendon Underwood

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1990s (1990 - 1999)

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The village stocks with four ankle holes for the punishment of petty crime and misdemeanor in the village. Although probably used from the Anglo-Saxon period, a statute of 1351 made it law for every township to provide and maintain a set of stocks.

HMP Grendon, Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire

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