In Praise of the Carceral Tour: Learning from the Grendon Experience.

This article is a response to Piché and Walby's (2010) criticism of 'carceral tours'. It uses 40 reflective accounts, completed by final year students at Birmingham City University, of their visit to HMP Grendon - an annual visit which has been ongoing for ten years - to argue that this 'carceral tour' has pedagogical value to the students and is also important to the prisoners and prison staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]