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On 21 November 1997 an invitation was issued to build a prison at Marchington, Staffordshire for an 800 Category B prison for adults with a facility for a 200-place therapeutic community (TC) (Genders, 2003). This was a legacy of the private finance initiative (PFI) of the early 1990s. The successful consortium, led by Premier Custodial Services, built and opened the prison containing the TC at HMP Dovegate in 2001 as the first purpose-built prison TC in the UK. Roland was Dovegate’s first director of therapy and had previously worked in TCs at HMP Gartree and Grendon.
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© 2014 Jennifer Brown, Sarah Miller, Sara Northey and Darragh O’Neill
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Brown, J., Miller, S., Northey, S., O’Neill, D. (2014). Controversies, Beginnings and Workings of the Dovegate TC. In: What Works in Therapeutic Prisons. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137306210_3
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