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A Henry Grendon yellow gold and enamel pre-hairspring verge watch, circa 1640.
Big Time: The British Pocket Watch Jonathon Keats 2010
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By the time he reached Grendon in 2003, he was four years into a life sentence on various counts of bank robbery.
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Dahl in Grendon Underwood is ignored because he has never heard of the village.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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In early 1942, Sofie Magdalene and Roald had moved from Ludgers-hall to nearby Grendon Underwood.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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That's a reasonable point to make, but in that case Grendon can't be used as a stick to beat the rest of the prison system.
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Moreover, there used to be a rigorous selection programme at Grendon, including an "IQ test to ascertain if [the prisoner] was intelligent enough and genuinely committed to benefit from therapy".
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His success over the next five years in turning his back on violence he attributes in no small part to the sympathetic environment of Grendon.
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Unlike in many other prisons, at Grendon ODCs ( "ordinary decent criminals") like Smith have to mix with child killers and rapists, or "wrong-uns".
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Grendon doesn't have a punishment block because it doesn't need one.
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But at Grendon, the whole point is to expose the insecurities and character flaws that criminal behaviour both draws upon and attempts to disguise.
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