Thursday, October 2, 2008

More on prisons

Security officials from France, Germany and Austria, according to this news story, have developed a manual designed to help prison authorities to combat recruitment among the inmates by Muslim extremists. The manual draws on information from other EU member states, as well as from other sources like the New York City police.

In France, there are an estimated 80-100 hard-core extremists among about 64,000 prison inmates. The goal of the authorities is to keep them from influencing others. Needless to say, the manual (whose contents are not being made public), has already drawn fire for potentially stigmatizing Muslim inmates.

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