The officers believe that attempts have been made to convert one in 10 of the estimated 8,000 Muslims in the eight high-security prisons in England and Wales to the Al-Qaeda cause in the past two years.
The Ministry of Justice said this weekend that it had established a unit to tackle “the risks of extremism and radicalism in prison”.
The radicalisation is being led by some of the estimated 150 terrorist prisoners in England and Wales.
The size of the problem emerged in evidence given to a review of radicalisation in jails by Nick Herbert, the shadow justice secretary. -link
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