Treating the Sex Offender

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Film-maker Rex Bloomstein, who pioneered a British prison television documentary, gains unprecedented access to the largest sex offender prison in Europe, HMP Whatton in the UK. Since the revelations surrounding high profile figures in the UK entertainment industry, there are more sex offenders in English and Welsh prisons than ever before, around 11,600 out of a total population of 86,000. Bloomstein explores the methods used to get prisoners to confront their offending behaviour and to prepare them to go back out into the world.

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0:00.0	Bird Song is not a sound I associate with one of Her Majesty's prisons in the UK,
0:10.0	but that is where I am.
0:12.0	And then again, H.M.Wotten in Nottinghamshire
0:15.0	is no ordinary jail.
0:16.9	In fact, it's the largest prison in Europe for sex offenders. They're kept in mostly two-story sandstone buildings with names like Alpha Bravo Charlie
0:28.0	units.
0:29.0	There are landscape gardens and more space than you would imagine. It feels to me like an
0:34.8	industrial estate, but of course it's not.
0:39.4	Built in the 1960s, Wadden houses 841 adult male sex offenders.
0:48.0	I'm told that it's known locally as the Piederphile Palace. But this is in fact a treatment prison and for the first time
0:56.3	ever I've been given unprecedented access to find out what is being done here to rehabilitate
1:02.2	some of the most despised and feared people in our society.
1:07.0	And since the revelations surrounding high profile figures in the UK entertainment industry,
1:12.0	which have sent a shockwave through this country
1:14.4	there are more sex offenders in our prison system than ever before.
1:18.4	11,600 out of a total prison population of nearly 86,000.
1:25.0	I'm Rex Bloemstein and for the last 40 years I've been documenting the English
1:30.5	criminal justice system in a series of documentary films returning time and again
1:35.7	to open up the realities of prison life.
1:38.0	For the BBC World Service, I'm going to examine how sex offenders are managed and treated not just here in
1:44.9	HMP Watton but also outside of the present system in the Netherlands.
1:50.0	We're just on our way to be a unit and we're the induction meeting when we get there.
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