Better than prison: life inside the UK's secure hospitals

Residential treatment centres are an alternative to prison for offenders with mental health problems, and can offer a better chance of lasting rehabilitationOne day in early August, 36-year-old Gavin bumped into an old friend outside That’s Entertainment music and DVD shop in Preston market.“He pulled me to one side, but I didn’t recognise him,” Gavin (a pseudonym) says when we meet a week later. “He was like, ‘How you doing? I’m just going to get some s