Frankland jail: Muslim inmates living in fear for their safety at high-security prison | Society | The Guardian 4.0 star rating

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/aug/20/prisonsandprobation.islam

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Muslim prisoners, including some convicted terrorists, inside one of Britain's biggest high security prisons feel so unsafe that they have sought sanctuary in the jail's segregation unit for their own protection, the chief inspector of prisons discloses today.

Anne Owers says that there have been serious incidents of "prisoner-on-prisoner" violence inside Frankland prison, near Durham, with black and ethnic minority inmates in general the target of attacks and Muslim prisoners in particular.

Owers says in her inspection report on the high security jail published today that some, but not all, of the Muslim inmates who have been attacked had been convicted of terrorism offences.

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Created by DrPot on 20 August 2008

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