This is very depressing. From the Times:
Prisoners who refuse to join radical Islamist gangs are having to be placed in segregation units for their own safety, The Times can reveal.
Officers at HMP Frankland in Co Durham, one of the highest-security jails in Britain, are keeping vulnerable prisoners apart from Islamic extremists in an effort to maintain order and discipline.
The jail has become so overrun with Islamic gangs that its “terrorist separation centres”, built to stop terrorists from radicalising other prisoners, have become obsolete.
Instead, other prisoners are forced into the isolation units to protect them because they are at risk of being attacked and face death threats if they refuse to join the gangs.
The prison has been accused of appeasing fundamentalists amid a power struggle between radical Islamists and other inmates that is mirrored in many British jails.
The most dangerously influential Islamist prisoners, deemed at a high risk of radicalising others, were supposed to be isolated within these terrorist separation centres. Now though it seems that the Islamists outnumber the rest, so they control the prison while those brave few unwilling to proclaim their allegiance to jihad populate the separation centres. How on earth could it have come to this?
A report in 2022 by Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, found that terrorists had been able to seize control of wings and set up sharia courts in some prisons in England and Wales without resistance from prison staff, who were afraid of being accused of Islamophobia if they intervened.
Ah yes. That's how.
He found that Islamic extremists had sought to dictate the diets and washing habits of non-Muslim prisoners and had set up sharia courts to deliver punishments such as flogging.
They escaped punishment by arguing that their prison cells did not come under the jurisdiction of terrorism laws.
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