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Is there a link between the rise of Islamists in the penal system and the proposed Titan Prisons?

By John Hirst

Is there a link between the rise of Islamists in the penal system and the proposed Titan Prisons?

UK prison officers are ill-equipped to deal with the growing threat of Muslim terrorists and those converting to Islam whilst in prison. Briefly, it has reopened the Concentration versus Dispersal debate. However, the Director General of the National Offender Management Service, Phil Wheatley, favours the Dispersal concept.

A problem as I see it is this, if the threat was Aids rather than radical Islamists then if unprotected contact occurred there is a danger of the contagion spreading to the general population. Instead of reducing the problem by dispersal, it would spread like a oil slick discharged from a tanker.

Update: This is interesting Christianity in prisons as a bulwark against radical Islam?

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on October 22, 2008 (boomark / email).