The Frying Pan

A Prison and Its Prisoners

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Crimes & Criminals, Penology, Criminology
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Author: Tony Parker ISBN: 9780571304295
Publisher: Faber & Faber Publication: September 17, 2013
Imprint: Faber & Faber Language: English
Author: Tony Parker
ISBN: 9780571304295
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication: September 17, 2013
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Language: English

In 1970 Tony Parker was permitted by the Home Office to make a series of visits to HMP Grendon Underwood, the UK's first psychiatric prison, there to interview inmates and staff for a study of the institution and its unique community.

'Tony Parker deserves a place in any future history of literature for his contribution to the creative use of the tape-recorder... We can only guess at the qualities of patience and perceptiveness which have enabled Mr Parker to make of his material one of the most important studies ever to have been published of the habitual criminal.' TLS

'The reader will find himself as deeply involved with his characters as Mr Parker is himself.' Spectator

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In 1970 Tony Parker was permitted by the Home Office to make a series of visits to HMP Grendon Underwood, the UK's first psychiatric prison, there to interview inmates and staff for a study of the institution and its unique community.

'Tony Parker deserves a place in any future history of literature for his contribution to the creative use of the tape-recorder... We can only guess at the qualities of patience and perceptiveness which have enabled Mr Parker to make of his material one of the most important studies ever to have been published of the habitual criminal.' TLS

'The reader will find himself as deeply involved with his characters as Mr Parker is himself.' Spectator

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