Nine of Britain’s most dangerous convicted Islamist terrorists being held in specially created isolation prison units, known as Separation Centres, have refused to participate in deradicalisation programmes on offer, an official inspection report concluded on Tuesday.
The ‘Report on an inspection of Separation Centres’ by the Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, concluded that almost all prisoners refused to take part in ”purposeful activity, complete offending behaviour work or engage with others such as Imams and psychologists”.
The Separation Centre model was introduced by the UK Ministry of Justice in 2017 as one part of the government’s response to a review into the management of extremism within the country’s prisons and was intended to prevent prisoners with extreme views radicalising their fellow inmates, presenting a risk to national security, supporting acts of terrorism or disrupting the prison environment.
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