JAILED EXTREMISTS TO BE SEGREGATED

LONDON Britain announced plans Monday to house imprisoned Islamist extremists in separate units from other inmates, after a review found that some charismatic convicts were radicalizing the wider Muslim population in prisons.

The government-ordered study concluded that “cultural sensitivity” among National Offender Management Service staff toward Muslim prisoners went too far and “could inhibit the effective confrontation of extremist views.”

Some 12,633 Muslims were in prison in England and Wales at the end of June.