Hate preachers to be held in ‘jails within jails’ to stop radicalisation of fellow inmates
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Review of Human Rights Act will make it easier to place terrorists in ‘separation units’ which nullify ‘invidious influences’.
By Charles Hymas
More terrorists are to be held in 'jails within jails' to stop hate preachers influencing other prisoners.
Dominic Raab, the Justice Secretary, is preparing a major expansion of the use of 'separation centres' within high-security prisons where dangerous terrorists will be held for longer to keep them away from other vulnerable prisoners.
It will be supported by reforms to human rights laws designed to combat claims by the terrorists’ lawyers that separating them from other prisoners breaches their rights to socialise.
There are three separation units in high-security jails in England and Wales, but they have been underused because of claims by lawyers that they breach prisoners’ 'Article 8' rights to a family and private life.
In one case, convicted killer Jemmikai Orlebar-Forbes, 28, won £15,000 from the Government after claiming a breach ...
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