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[Solemn music plays, noises of nature in
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Narrator: Broadmoor, a word that makes people shiver.
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Most think that Broadmoor is a prison,
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in fact it's a high secure psychiatric hospital,
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and home to some of the countries most
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dangerous and violent offenders.
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[Gate unlocking, mechanical noises]
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After five years of negotiation, and for the
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very first time, the hospital has allowed
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cameras in to meet the men who live behind
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these walls.
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[unintelligible yelling, sound of something slamming]
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[Running foot steps keys jangling]
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[more yelling and sounds of a struggle]
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[door slams]
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[foot steps echo in the hallway]
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Inmate: Broadmoores got this, this history
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about people being all these monsters here basically.
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But you can be violent, and it don't mean you're
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a bad person.
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'Cause sometimes
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you don't....you're not intendin' it.
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Over radio: "Hello Brovo one, two, and go.
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Over radio: "One going to the
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[ unintelligible] all radio. Alpha four.
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Over."
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Man in Tan Suit: The easiest reaction in the world is to
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see somebody that has committed something
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atrocious, label them as evil, want to
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lock the door and throw away the key.
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Daniel: "I've probably actually never said
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the words of what I've I actually done.
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I've never admitted it. Still just a blur
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in my head".
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[knocking on door]
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Inmate: "I've got born into this Italian
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family. Very, very violent. In some cases
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it would have been better to have killed
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me than to have allowed me to have this
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horrible life that I've had.
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Narrator: With unprecedented access, and
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filmed over a year, this series reveals
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the secrets of life inside Brittians most
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notorious institution.
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[Bell rings]
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[Solemn music]
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Narrator: Broadmoor is perched above the
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Berkshire village of Crowthorne. Just 40
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miles from the center of London.
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When people think of Broadmoore they think of
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Ronny Kray, Peter Sutcliffe, Robert
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Napper, and Kenneth Erskine. Some of the
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most dangerous killers the country has
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ever known.
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Inmate: "The public perceive this place as 'oh,
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that's where the Yorkshire Rippers locked
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up, that's Rachel Nickell's killers locked
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up'. Broadmoor is an institution of lots of
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people. We're not all rapist pedophiles,
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or murderers. There is people in here for
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self-harming in prison, there's people in
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here for buggary and they've gotten in a prison,
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and there's people in here for very very
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evil things.
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and it brushes with all the same brush
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what station are you".
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[loud string crescendo]
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Narrator: First built as a victorian
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lunatic asylum for the criminally insane,
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today Broadmoor is an NHS hospital.
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Over its 150 year history, its been a secretive
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and mysterious institution.
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Staff are under strict instructions not to
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discuss patients outside the hospital walls.
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[clicking as items are placed on conveyer
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and beeping of machinery]
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Many won't even admit to working here.
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Staff Member: " Close, close family
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members know that, obviously, where we
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work. But if we're in a normal mainstream
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than you would, you would probably say you
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work in the hospital or something. Don't
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really talk about the place."
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Staff Member #2: " Listen, if you said
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that you worked here. Ah, boy. You'd just
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spend the whole of a day, or the
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afternoon, with a barrage of questions about the place.
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So, it's just easy to say you work for the
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NHS".
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Narrator: They're told not to share
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personal information with the patients
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either, and to leave their private lives
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along with their possessions. At the front door.
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Broadmoor's most notorious patients,
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like Peter Sutcliffe and Kenneth Erskine,
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have chosen not to participate.
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But many of the men here have been front
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page news and are vilified by society.
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This is the first time they've been
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allowed to tell their stories.
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Alex: I've everything from taking
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hostages, more hostage taking, stabbings,
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ya' know. Uhhhh... more assaults, violent
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assaults, fire setting off. I set a whole
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stammers a fire in a hospital. A
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psychiatric hospital, the first one I
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ever went to. Umm.. yeah. Just mainly
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violence and whatnot. My history is mainly
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violence".
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Narrator: "Broadmoors 200 patients are all
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men suffering from mental disorders.
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They're classified as vulnerable adults
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and only those who have Capacity to
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Give Consent have been allowed to talk to
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us.
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Their faces have been blurred to
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protect their identities
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[Door closing]
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Female Voice: "What are you like when
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you're not on medication?"
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Alex: "Ummm...I'm quite a nasty
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person. I'm quite violent, I'm very
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violent in most-most circumstances. Very
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antisocial. I don't like spending time
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with people. I'm paranoid. I'm, uh, very
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paranoid. stammers Every person around,
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I'm thinking 'what's their intention?' I
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come to that, sometimes I come very close
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to attacking people because I'm thinking
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that they're going to do something to me
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and I don't want to get hurt first. Uh,
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um..I remember one time when I'm off
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medication, spent 11 months locked in a
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cell. Segregated, due to the fact that I
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was too dangerous to come out".
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Narrator: 24 year old Alex arrived at
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Broadmoor 7 months ago. He was serving a
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life sentence in a dedicated prison unit
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for highly dangerous prisoners.
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They could no longer manage him.
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Alex: "When I was younger, we would
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chase a seagull... trails off
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Narrator: Now in a remissions ward he's
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been diagnosed with mental illness and
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personality disorder and put on
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medication.
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One of his symptoms is Auditory Hallucinations.
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He hears voices.
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Alex: "Oh, I was doing a fruit salad
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the other day for an assessment. That's
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when they do this assessment from
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personal motor, motor skills.
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It's like for learning disability.
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And....Umm...
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I was cutting a mango
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and I have never, I've never used a sharp knife.
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In the seven years I've been away
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I've not used a sharp knife
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and I was shaking. Literally.
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I nearly cut my fingers off cause'
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the voices were telling me to attack the
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people in the room, with the knife.
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And, like, they were goading me into it,
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and I thought ' I can't do that.
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I can't do that.
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and so I managed to finish fruit, the
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fruit salad, and I thought " wow like, what
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achievement'. Cause' mostly stammers a
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year ago, two years ago, my emotions
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would have done it.
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Ya know?"
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[unintelligible speaking]
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Man in Sweater: "No. We'll clean it
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afterwards. We are going to give you
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bedding for now, okay?"
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Narrator: This is Cranfield, the
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intensive care ward. Home to the hospitals
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most acute mentally ill patients.
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[door shutting, keys jangling, people
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speaking unintelligibly]
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Female Voice: "Hi, can we come in and
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talk to you, yeah?"
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Man in Sweater: "Sit on the bed for us"
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Narrator: Any contact with them has to be
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carefully planned and executed.
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This is a six person unlock.
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The door to this patients room can only be
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opened with six staff present.
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Man in Glasses: "There is always the risk
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of violence towards others if
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[can't understand] with chronic mental
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illness and they will be very distant
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throughout the day, but you have to
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learn to work with that.
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[person sobbing]
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My focus in working with this guys is
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after telling me that they are here
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not because of the illness, they
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are here because of violence.
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And they only progress from here
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if there's a reduction in that violence.
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So that message, you know.
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It might take time, but gradually
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over a period of time, is that
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goal through".
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[keys jangling, unintelligible talking in background]
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Narrator: On this ward, even the most
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routine tasks, run a risk of violence and
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involve a protocol.
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This patient has asked for a drink.
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Man in White: "Just keep on the bed trails off
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[unintelligible]
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Shukran. Shukran
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Shukran means thank you, right?
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You know, you taught me all this.
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laughs
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[unintelligible speaking]"
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Inmate: [unintelligible] "give me some more?'
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Man in White: [unintelligible response]
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"Thank you!"
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Female voice: "Thank you guys."
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Narrator: Life in Broadmoor can be a game
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of snakes and ladders.
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With patients moving between the hospitals
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15 wards according to their
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mental state.
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[door closing]
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Patients who have responded to treatment
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can progress to one of the hospitals
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Assertive Rehab Wards, where
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they're given greater freedom.
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Daniel is one of 12 patients on this
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ward.
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Daniel: "I've been here five years.
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Luckily I never went to a high dependency
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ward, I came straight to rehab.
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And, to be honest, its been...
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I wouldn't use the word wonderful...
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Cause' eh... it's not wonderful.
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But, I've been grateful basically
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to come here.
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In my spare time I try and engage
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in artwork mostly.
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This was the, uh... my first real attempt
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at an actual portrait. All done completely
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in graphite, and then I moved on to using
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charcoal along with, uh.. graphite.
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And the charcoal allows you to, to have
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so much more...uhhh...depth in the tone or
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quality.
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And then, yeah....I did a self-portrait.
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The whole, The whole picture was a
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statement about when I got locked up,
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when I was 14 and I'm now 24.
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This is me at 24, but uh, that's me.....
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back then...sort of thing...."
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Narrator: Mental Disorder is no respecter
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of class or education.
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Daniel was a 14 year old boy at a
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mainstream school, and no one anticipated
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the violence of his attack....on his own
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family.
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[Heavy guitar riff]
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All of the men in Broadmoor present a
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grave and immediate risk to the public.
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And many have committed violent crimes.
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From arson, to torture, rape and murder.
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Unlike a prison sentence, they have no
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release date.
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Daniel: "I've been a bit of a conundrum
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for the psychologists.
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And I've have, I've had about nine different
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diagnoses from thirty different doctors.
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I've had seminars about me done,
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I've had people wanting to write books about me,
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just because of the unusuallity of
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my offense, and my age, and what happened...
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I mean, my family are my saving grace
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to be honest here. They, they,
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they're hugely...hugely supportive.
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And what's even more amazing is that my offense
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was actually oriented against my family.
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So I think...so the fact....and, and, what a
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lot of people see is that, when a family
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member has committed an offense against
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a family member they're often...dis-disowned.
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So it think it's...it's too much for the family.
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But, they-they, have told me that they swore
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they'd stay by me when they, when I was
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christened, and they have. So I think,
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ya know...
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They've always-they've always agreed I've had Aspergers.
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One of the problems I have is I'm
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not very good at understanding emotions.
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Or...if I have a...if I'm feeling something
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I don't always understand what it is that
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I'm feeling.
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But if I can draw it, I can get out these
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angry feelings, or these frustrations of
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being locked up, or guilt, or remorse.
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All these, all these negative feelings I
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can channel through this imaginative artworks".
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[background talking, lunch bags rustle]
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Daniel: I've probably never actually said
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the words of what I actually done.
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I've never admitted it.
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Because I still, I still get flashbacks.
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It's mainly guilt.
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I still-I still struggle to bring it to mind
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It's still just a blur in my head.
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I've done such a terrible thing. Thats one
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of the things that I've got to come to
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terms with eventually is that I've
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done this, it's happened, and it WILL be
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with me forever".
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Narrator: We're not allowed to reveal the
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details of Daniel's offense.
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Man in Suit: "okay"
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Daniel: "Umm, the other thing I was
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wondering about was, I sort of get
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problems of fine motor control and spacial awareness,
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and like bumping into things, and dropping
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things a lot".
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Man in Suit: "Oh so you're saying one of
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the most common side effect. In fact, the
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opposite....[trails off]"
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Narrator: Daniel is taking medication and
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undergoing psychological therapy.
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These, together with everyday interaction
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with staff are the cornerstone of
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the treatment here.
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Man in Suit: "Have you noticed any benefit?"
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Daniel: " I don't really know what it is
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I'm looking for."
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Man in Suit: " I have noticed a difference
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in you, not within the last week, but
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certainly over the last three months. I
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think that you are much more able to
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spend a good time with people in one to
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one situations."
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[ducks quack, dramatic music]
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Narrator: Broadmoor can feel like a ghost
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town. Patients can only move at certain
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times and in certain configurations.
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Their cameras record where each patient is
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at any given moment.
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[Radio Chatter]
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The control room ensures that incompatible
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patients, do not collide.
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[Radio Chatter]
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Patients who are well enough, leave their
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wards to go to work, study, and even once
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a week go shopping. It's strangely like a
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village.
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[loud indistinct talking]
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Shopkeeper "Whats going on? You sure it's okay?"
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[indistinct response]
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Shopkeeper: "Good."
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Narrator: The freedom to shop is a
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mixed blessing. One of the side effects
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of medication is increased appetite
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and many patients are severely overweight.
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[indistinct talking]
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However normal it feels, the reminder of
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the threat of violence is ever-present.
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Searches looking for potential weapons
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are carried out before any patient movement.
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Hospital Staff: This is stuff that we've
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retrieved from patients. I think this is
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just, what used to be a C.D. and its been
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broken up into shards. It can be used as a
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blade, it can be used for self harming.
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In fact, we don't use the C.D.s here anymore.
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We've got spoons and forks that have been
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sharpened off on the edge. So a normal
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teaspoon-plastic spoon-which is quite innocent
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to you and I, has been fashioned off and
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can be used as a potential weapon to stab.
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It's an example of how vigilant we have to
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be with everyday items".
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Alex: "I've done a lot of self harming, as
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you can see. I've cut my own throat a couple
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of times. I've cut my throat like four
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times I think. Umm funny enough, I think
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It was like five weeks before I come here,
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I hung myself and they had to do CPR
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on me in the cell.
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Like, you know?
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I was sexually abused when I was a child
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and that had an affect on my behavior.
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And maybe we'll see that.
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I couldn't sleep at night, and the rest
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of it...I was, you know...
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Basically everything that you go through
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when you've had a traumatic situation
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like I did.
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I think as well as being here,
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I said to my mum 'this feels like the
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best I've ever been in ten years."
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Man in Tan Suit: Patients that come here,
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they will have perpetrated, often,
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horrendous crimes. But, they are also
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victims. It is very easy to see somebody
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as either the perpetrator or the victim.
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It is much more difficult to understand
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that somebody might be both.
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[squirrel chatters]
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[loud drumming and incoherent yelling]
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Narrator: Patients from different wards
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meet in certain events.
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Dave Neita: "hi, first of all, thank
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you for giving up your time. I know you
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could be doing other things, I know
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you have different [trails off]"
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Narrator: Todays a diversity workshop and
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Poet and Lawyer Dave Neita is encouraging
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them to celebrate their different cultures.
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Dave Neita: "Today I invite you to speak
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about your different culture, but before
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that we're going to have lunch."
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But most of them are celebrating lunch.
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[drums continue]
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With no alcohol or tobacco allowed, food
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is the only thing they have free reign over.
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[drums in background]
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Alex: "My mums Italian and my dads
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in Africa. I would say that being multicultural
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It helps. It's good. It's nice to be different.
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Because different is what we need. We
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don't want everyone the same. And that's it."
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Declan: "How'd I end up in here? Umm
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they said they had a spare bed so I
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thought 'I've been in children's homes,
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I've been in secure units, I've been in prison.
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The only place I haven't been is Broadmoor.
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So I thought I'd come along.
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laughs"
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[drumming]
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Narrator: Now 26, Declan was put
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into care at the age of nine.
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Declan: "I remember the day that my
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mum took me to this office. I sat there
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in a chair, and the next minute she just
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left. She went 'your not coming with me'.
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A social worker come out and she went
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'alright, you ought to come with me'.
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I went to children's homes, foster homes.
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I kept running away. Cause' I got abused
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When I was in the children home. By the
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staff. Sexually and physical. And umm I
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think it was like, no one would actually
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listen to me.
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I ran away to London, and I was living on
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the streets. I mean I was living out in-
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and yeah....not the nicest spot. Out in
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the streets you have to do that sometimes.
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you know what I mean?"
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Inmate in Red: "Yeah guys, this is called
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It goes like this: When you see a tramp
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out on the street. Don't look down your
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nose so far that you see your own feet.
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When you see people homeless don't reach
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for a broom. Consider if you have the
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means to give them a room.
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Declan: "Am I a victim? I mean my current
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defendant...umm...basically stabbed 'em
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up. The judge classed it under as torture".
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Inmate in Blue: "I'm black, I'm
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British, and I'm proud of it [fades into
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clapping and drums]."
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Female Voice: "You say you've got a child?"
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Declan: "Mm-hm. Got a little boy,
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he's seven.
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And he lives with his mum.
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Don't really see him, but I would-
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I wouldn't expect children to come in a
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place like this."
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Female Voice: "And are you still on good
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terms with his mum?"
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Declan: "Ummm...laughs
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not really. No.
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I started having a bit of a relationship
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with [name beeped out]. Sooo, yeah..that
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was the first time I found out that I was
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sort of that way.
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I've always-for some reason-I've always
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wanted to be a woman.
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I think that's the way I
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but in this place you can't do that,
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the way I love it.
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Declan in front of room: "I just wanted
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to say I'm gay, and I'm proud of it.
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Thank you."
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Declan: "I want to be a Drag Queen that's
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what I've done for a while."
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Female Voice: "What's she called?"
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Declan: "Crystal."
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Female Voice: "And what's she look like?"
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Declan: "Blonde, and just fabulous
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laughs"
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[Intense music]
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Narrator: Ive come to Chepstow, a
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medium-dependancy ward, where Lenny
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wants to show us his artwork.
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Female Voice: "You do it, your artwork?"
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Lenny: "Yeah. I do work with spare pens,
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and it's mostly based on pens and
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basically your using cuts and shapes
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and bottle tops to draw around.
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Female Voice: "How long have you been here?"
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Lenny: "7 years this time.:
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Female voice: "Is it not your first time?"
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Lenny: "Second Time.
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what do you think of that one?
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Thats the corridors in border shop
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down there."
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Female Voice: "So why are you considered
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a risk?"
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Lenny: "Because...I think its because of
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my particular offense was against a
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consulting psychiatrist. Because they
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called in a section 12 approved psychiatrist.
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And they're very powerful, not like- not
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like when you go to an ordinary doctor.
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They-they work from home office."
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Narrator: He's not happy with life in
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Broadmoor, and tells us he's bringing a
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High Court case against the hospital.
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Lenny: "It costs how much? What was the
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last figure they said it cost to keep us
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here every year? 320,000 pounds a year or
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something? Surely its-its wrong to charge
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a fortune for people like us. When we're
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nowhere near about the centers of the
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community."
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Narrator: I costs 300,000 pounds a year
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to keep a patient in Broadmoor. Almost
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five times the cost of keep someone in prison.
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Before Lenny came to Broadmoor, he was
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in outpatient at a psychiatric hospital
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where he threatened his psychiatrist with
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a machete.
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Female Voice: "Do you think you shouldn't
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be here, or?"
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Lenny: "Do you think I sound like a
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mad blathering idiot?
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Cause' I think-No I don't think I should
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be here. I think I should be sharing this-
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my life- with people. I want to be
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sharing my life with people. I want to
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be...yeah...I can't believe