The Daily Telegraph

700 extremist prisoners in jails after crackdown

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Seven hundred prisoners have been identified as a potential extremism risk, the Ministry of Justice has said.

The figure, published for the first time since authoritie­s launched a major crackdown on radicalisa­tion behind bars, includes inmates flagged up over concerns they hold extreme Islamist or far-right beliefs.

The data was disclosed as the Government announced a separation centre to house the “most subversive” prisoners had opened at HMP Full Sutton in east Yorkshire.

The MOJ said there has been a 75 per cent increase in prisoners convicted of terrorism-related offences in the last three years.

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