Prisoners who refuse to join radical Islamist gangs are having to be placed in segregation units for their own safety, The Times can reveal.
Officers at HMP Frankland in Co Durham, one of the highest-security jails in Britain, are keeping vulnerable prisoners apart from Islamic extremists in an effort to maintain order and discipline.
The jail has become so overrun with Islamic gangs that its “terrorist separation centres”, built to stop terrorists from radicalising other prisoners, have become obsolete.
Instead, other prisoners are forced into the isolation units to protect them because they are at risk of being attacked and face death threats if they refuse to join the gangs.
The prison has been accused of appeasing fundamentalists amid a power struggle between radical Islamists
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