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Don’t
treat Muslim prisoners as potential terrorists: British report
Tuesday, June 08, 2010 06:40:19 PM,
Venkata Vemuri, IANS |
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London:
The government is warned that the present attitude of jail
authorities in England and Wales to treat all Muslim prisoners as
potential terrorists runs the risk of drawing them to extremism upon
their release.
Chief Inspector of Prisons Dame Anne Owers says in a report
published Monday that such a blanket treatment is prevalent
throughout the prison system even though very few of the Muslim
prisoners are doing time for terrorist-related offences.
“There has been considerable public focus on them as potential
extremists and on prisons as the place where they may become
radicalised, often through conversion - even though fewer than one
percent are in prison for terrorist-related offences,” the report
says.
The report is based on interviews with 164 Muslim prisoners in eight
prisons and young offender institutions.
The number of Muslims in prison in England and Wales has soared in
recent years from 2,513, or five percent of the prison population,
in 1994 to 6,571 or eight percent in 2004 and to 10,300, more than
12 percent, on the latest figures.
The chief inspector says the main finding from the surveys and
interviews was that Muslim prisoners report more negatively on their
prison experience, and particularly their safety and relationships
with staff, than other prisoners.
Treating these prisoners as a homogenous group is erroneous, Owers
says: “Some are birth Muslims, and others have converted. In
prisoner surveys, 40 percent were Asian, one percent white and 10
per cent of mixed heritage.”
“One of their main grievances was, however, that staff tended to
think of them as a group, rather than as individuals, and too often
through the lens of extremism and terrorism - whether that was to
prevent, or detect, those issues,” the report says.
The report calls for prison staff to be trained to treat Muslim
prisoners as individuals rather than treating them all alike.
“Without that there is a real risk of a self-fulfilling prophecy:
that the prison experience will create or entrench alienation and
disaffection, so that prisons release into the community young men
who are more likely to offend, or even embrace extremism,” Owers
says.
Her report also discounts claims by prison staff that gangs are
forcing non-Muslim prisoners to convert to Islam. The report says
that while conversions are common they are more likely to be the
result of better food at Ramadan, the benefits of protection within
a group and the discipline and structure provided by observing Islam
through prayer.
The problem is most acute in high security prisons where
three-quarters of Muslims interviewed say they feel unsafe, which is
strongly linked to mistrust of the staff. Up to a third of Muslim
prisoners are said to be adopting the religion while serving their
sentence.
The National Offender Management Service — the umbrella body of
prison officers — says Owers’ report on how Muslims prisoners are
treated is incorrect.
Director-general Phil Wheatley told Daily Mail: “It is not right to
say that NOMS has a blanket security-led approach to Muslim
prisoners. Our clear policy is that all prisoners are treated with
respect and decency and that the legitimate practice of faith in
prison is supported.”
Meanwhile, a YouGov poll of 2,152 adults reveals widespread concern
about the impact of the faith on British values. It found nearly six
in 10 associate Islam with radical views, and two-thirds believe it
encourages the repression of women.
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