Warnings over failure to stop radicalisation in prison
The prison service has failed to recognise the dangers Islamist gangs and convicted terrorists pose inside jail, a report warns.
Prisoners had even tried to exclude staff from Friday prayers or imposed conditions such as staff removing shoes.There was no national "dashboard" for highlighting where Islamist gangs were active or on the rise in the prison system, he said.After an earlier review, the prison service built three separation centres, prisons within prisons where the most influential radicalisers could be kept away from the other inmates.
He also wants to increase from 50 to 60 in England and Wales the number of places in close-supervision centres, where the most violent prisoners are held.