NEW YORK – The radicalization and recruitment of terrorists in US prisons present a threat of "unknown magnitude," according to national security experts. That's prompted leading analysts to call on Congress to set up a national commission to study the spread of radical ideologies in America's correctional systems.
Prisons have long been fertile breeding grounds for radical thought. Right-wing extremists, neo-Nazis, and Christian Identity groups have traditionally recruited and set up ideologically based gangs in these facilities. Radical Islamists have been more active in European prisons, but there have been a handful of documented cases of Islamist radicalization in US prisons. Read more ...
Source: Christian Science Monitor
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