Jail staff failing to counter extremism, warns inspector

    Inadequately trained staff inside Belmarsh high security prison are failing to challenge extremism and are in danger of feeding radicalisation by alienating Muslim inmates, the chief inspector of prisons has warned. Anne Owers said staff at the London jail, which holds nearly 200 Muslims, face a danger of fuelling anti-western attitudes. Independent prison monitoring boards…

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      No Arabic staff at UK jail ‘creating risks’

      A lack of Muslim and Arabic-speaking staff at a British jail that detains terrorism suspects is creating a security risk because they could not understand what inmates were discussing, a government report has revealed. Despite staff working at Long Lartin prison’s specialist terrorism unit insisting such culture training was essential, authorities had yet to introduce…

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