Extremist inmates are conducting a campaign of fear
and intimidation against other cons at a top-security prison in a bid
to persuade them to convert to Islam.
The religion bans men from seeing other males’ private parts. Eating pork is also prohibited.
Research
conducted by the Cambridge Institute of Criminology on behalf of the
Ministry of Justice claims “heavy players” among the Muslim population
at Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire are bullying other lags. Professor
Alison Liebling, who led the study, said: “Non- Muslim prisoners
described wearing underpants in the showers out of ‘respect and fear’
and some Muslim prisoners described a form of intimidation exerted over
frying bacon in the kitchens.”
The
report also revealed white “old lags” who were once prison power
brokers had been reduced to onlookers by the arrival at the jail of
black gang members, young white drug users and Muslims.
Ms
Liebling added: “The ordinary Muslim prisoners are horrified by what
the heavies are doing under the umbrella of faith. It is not about
faith, it is the phenomenon of a new source of power to which others are
attracted.”
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