*** CANADA is the only one not on the list - how embrassing. MS ***
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100628/world/international_us_security_radicalisation
LONDON (Reuters) - Western prisons could root out militant Islamism among inmates by adopting the more imaginative approaches to prisoners used in parts of the Middle East and Asia, a British study suggests.
The provision of religious advice and helping prisoners cultivate non-extremist social networks are among measures proposed in the study of prisons in 15 countries.
Britain's chief prison inspector said last month the treatment of Muslim inmates by prison staff as potentially dangerous militants risked driving them into the hands of radical groups.
Prisons occupy a central place in the history of militant Islamist groups such as al Qaeda which see them as valued centers of learning, recruitment and indoctrination.
Creative programs can turn the tide, argues the study of prison militants in Afghanistan, Algeria, Britain, Egypt, France, Indonesia, Israel, Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, the United States and Yemen.
For example in Singapore, alleged terrorists are systematically re-educated in prison, said the report by London's International Center for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR).
A team of trained religious advisers helps them go through the Koran, showing how critical passages need to be read in context, and how extremist notions about violence are often based on misreadings and misinterpretations, the report says.
Prisons can be "a place for reform as well as radicalization," Peter Neumann, study author and director of ICSR based at London University's King's College, told Reuters.
"Prisons can play a positive role in tackling problems of radicalization and terrorism in society as a whole."
"SECURITY FIRST" APPROACH
Most Western prison systems practiced a "security first" approach with radicalized inmates, Neumann said, arguing this amounted to "locking people away and making sure they don't cause any trouble." Opportunities for reform were missed.
In Saudi Arabia, officials spend heavily to reform and re-integrate former militants to try to ensure they can look forward to a meaningful and productive life after leaving prison, the report says. In some cases, this process has included buying them houses and cars, and even finding them wives.
"None of the de-radicalization programs in the Middle East and Southeast Asia is perfect," said Neumann.
"But they should serve as an inspiration for people in the West to think more creatively about what positive things could be done with radicals and terrorists in the state's custody."
Neumann said this approach would not work everywhere, because de-radicalization depended on a conducive environment.
Releasing people into hostile communities with no further supervision would not work because all good de-radicalization programs were based on follow-up and after-care, which in case of Afghanistan for example was difficult, he said.
The study's proposed measures include:
-- A mix of education, typically combining ideological and/or religious re-education with vocational training.
-- Appointing credible interlocutors, who can relate to prisoners' personal and psychological needs.
-- Sophisticated methods for locking prisoners into multiple commitments and obligations toward family and community.
Showing posts with label Toronto 18 prisoners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toronto 18 prisoners. Show all posts
Monday, June 28, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
EXREMISM IN PRISON - DO WE HAVE A PLAN?
*** Another report I'm eagerly awaiting. We talk for years and years about the theory of this but little effort is made in actually DOING something about it. It frustrates me knowing that we could be getting it with it right this moment - but that some would rather wait until it becomes a problem and then respond. Ah the reactionaries! predictable and susceptible to surprise. THINK. MS ***
FROM: http://icsr.info/project/de-radicalisation-and-disengagement-in-prisons---lessons-from-15-countries
De-radicalisation and Disengagement in Prisons - Lessons from 15 Countries
Aim: to compare and evaluate government policies on terrorist and extremist prisoners as well as the various programmes and initiatives aimed at "de-programming" and re-habilitation.
Prisons are increasingly seen as a 'place of vulnerability' in which radicalisation and recruitment are taking place. The development has gone largely unnoticed, but - with growing numbers of violent extremists awaiting trial or serving their sentences - the problem is unlikely to go away.
Some countries have long struggled with the issue. They have developed innovative and apparently successful programmes through which radical prisoners are de-radicalised and rehabilitated. Other countries - mostly those in Western Europe and North America - are just about to begin to tackle the problem.
The ICSR study will compare and evaluate government policies on terrorist and extremist prisoners as well as the various programmes and initiatives that have been aimed at 'de-programming' and rehabilitating them.
The project will be launched in June 2009 and is expected to conclude in early 2010. It is carried out in partnership with START/University of Maryland, and will be funded by the UK Home Office, as well as the Dutch and Australian Governments.
FROM: http://icsr.info/project/de-radicalisation-and-disengagement-in-prisons---lessons-from-15-countries
De-radicalisation and Disengagement in Prisons - Lessons from 15 Countries
Aim: to compare and evaluate government policies on terrorist and extremist prisoners as well as the various programmes and initiatives aimed at "de-programming" and re-habilitation.
Prisons are increasingly seen as a 'place of vulnerability' in which radicalisation and recruitment are taking place. The development has gone largely unnoticed, but - with growing numbers of violent extremists awaiting trial or serving their sentences - the problem is unlikely to go away.
Some countries have long struggled with the issue. They have developed innovative and apparently successful programmes through which radical prisoners are de-radicalised and rehabilitated. Other countries - mostly those in Western Europe and North America - are just about to begin to tackle the problem.
The ICSR study will compare and evaluate government policies on terrorist and extremist prisoners as well as the various programmes and initiatives that have been aimed at 'de-programming' and rehabilitating them.
The project will be launched in June 2009 and is expected to conclude in early 2010. It is carried out in partnership with START/University of Maryland, and will be funded by the UK Home Office, as well as the Dutch and Australian Governments.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
TORONTO 18 SUSPECTS AND JAIL BENEFITS
*** I want all you Canada-hating Muslim zealots to take a real, hard look at the how the system treats you even when you wish for its destruction. "Repel harm with what is good". ***
SOURCE: http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/12/22/12235926-sun.html
BRAMPTON -- The Toronto 18 suspects at a detention centre west of Toronto have been treated better than other inmates at the facility, two correctional staff told court yesterday.
A correctional officer and supervisor from the Maplehurst detention centre in Milton testified at the sentencing hearing for Saad Gaya, who pleaded guilty in September to intending to cause an explosion for the benefit of a terrorist group.
Gaya, 22, was among 18 people arrested in June 2006 in a massive terror plot to wreak havoc on several targets, including Parliament and RCMP headquarters.
He is one of four of those people to plead guilty.
Gaya and Saad Khalid, who also pleaded guilty, were arrested while unloading bags labelled "ammonium nitrate" from a truck driven by an undercover police officer. But Gaya did not have knowledge of the magnitude of the explosive force of the purported ammonium nitrate, nor did he know the group's leaders intended for him to drive a van loaded with fertilizer bombs, according to an agreed statement of facts.
COULD MINGLE
A non-communication order between the co-accused was lifted in June 2007, meaning they were no longer in segregation, and could mingle in a common area in the wing that housed only them.
Since that time they get several hours a day of free time in the common area, where they could watch television. Normally in the detention centre there are 32 inmates per TV, whereas in the Toronto 18 suspects' wing there were 10 people clamouring for one TV, and they got a remote while other inmates did not, said officer Don McCaffrey.
The terror inmates have also had laptops with them in their cells because of an order that they have 24-hour access to the evidence in their cases.
Special accommodations were also made for the men's Muslim faith, including visits usually twice a week with an imam, which is a privilege not afforded to other inmates, McCaffrey said.
Both men said they agreed with Crown attorney Croft Michaelson's assertion that the Toronto 18 inmates have been receiving better treatment than those elsewhere in the detention centre.
*** I take some issue with the highlighting of the "special privileges" given to them over others when it comes to Imam visits. Everyone is afforded chaplaincy services regardless.
Jailing people indefinitely in terror cases IS appropriate in some cases but not all. The fact is, some of them need help and we have to show we are trying to correct the problem not throw it away and bury it somewhere.
Because I can promise you, it will sprout again. ***
SOURCE: http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/12/22/12235926-sun.html
BRAMPTON -- The Toronto 18 suspects at a detention centre west of Toronto have been treated better than other inmates at the facility, two correctional staff told court yesterday.
A correctional officer and supervisor from the Maplehurst detention centre in Milton testified at the sentencing hearing for Saad Gaya, who pleaded guilty in September to intending to cause an explosion for the benefit of a terrorist group.
Gaya, 22, was among 18 people arrested in June 2006 in a massive terror plot to wreak havoc on several targets, including Parliament and RCMP headquarters.
He is one of four of those people to plead guilty.
Gaya and Saad Khalid, who also pleaded guilty, were arrested while unloading bags labelled "ammonium nitrate" from a truck driven by an undercover police officer. But Gaya did not have knowledge of the magnitude of the explosive force of the purported ammonium nitrate, nor did he know the group's leaders intended for him to drive a van loaded with fertilizer bombs, according to an agreed statement of facts.
COULD MINGLE
A non-communication order between the co-accused was lifted in June 2007, meaning they were no longer in segregation, and could mingle in a common area in the wing that housed only them.
Since that time they get several hours a day of free time in the common area, where they could watch television. Normally in the detention centre there are 32 inmates per TV, whereas in the Toronto 18 suspects' wing there were 10 people clamouring for one TV, and they got a remote while other inmates did not, said officer Don McCaffrey.
The terror inmates have also had laptops with them in their cells because of an order that they have 24-hour access to the evidence in their cases.
Special accommodations were also made for the men's Muslim faith, including visits usually twice a week with an imam, which is a privilege not afforded to other inmates, McCaffrey said.
Both men said they agreed with Crown attorney Croft Michaelson's assertion that the Toronto 18 inmates have been receiving better treatment than those elsewhere in the detention centre.
*** I take some issue with the highlighting of the "special privileges" given to them over others when it comes to Imam visits. Everyone is afforded chaplaincy services regardless.
Jailing people indefinitely in terror cases IS appropriate in some cases but not all. The fact is, some of them need help and we have to show we are trying to correct the problem not throw it away and bury it somewhere.
Because I can promise you, it will sprout again. ***
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