By Richard Ford
Staff at a top security jail fear Muslim inmates are pressurising other Muslim prisoners to adopt extremist views and encouraging other offenders to convert to Islam, according to an inspection report published today.
Prison officers at Whitemoor jail also feared growing radicalisation and conversions among the 395 inmates, of whom almost one third were Muslims.
On one wing at the jail staff admitted that Muslim inmates “policed themselves”, the report said.
One inmate claimed to inspectors that inmates are converting to Islam because they want protection and that Muslim gangs in the jail provide it. Read more ...
Staff at a top security jail fear Muslim inmates are pressurising other Muslim prisoners to adopt extremist views and encouraging other offenders to convert to Islam, according to an inspection report published today.
Prison officers at Whitemoor jail also feared growing radicalisation and conversions among the 395 inmates, of whom almost one third were Muslims.
On one wing at the jail staff admitted that Muslim inmates “policed themselves”, the report said.
One inmate claimed to inspectors that inmates are converting to Islam because they want protection and that Muslim gangs in the jail provide it. Read more ...
Source: The Times
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