The Rodeo, a collaboration between prisoners and employees, began in 1965.
The relationship between officers and prisoners is always conducted on a tightrope which both sides walk every day.
But Grendon is founded on this kind of relationship between the staff and prisoners.
Television also broadcast meetings between former political prisoners and the communist leaders from the secret police or prisons where they were held.
The estimated death toll was between 2,800 to 6,000 civilians and prisoners of war.
Oxford's had a good reputation for relationships between staff and prisoners.
They shifted constantly to keep a free path between prisoners and weapons.
There was now, in fact, little distinction between prisoners of war and foreign workers.
But the division between the permanent staff and new prisoners persisted.
Once these were completed it created a better segregation between male and female prisoners.