Prison officer chiefs say Muslim prisoners in one jail were exempt from searches by sniffer dogs after they complained on religious grounds. Shockingly this is at HMP Frankland, the same high security lock-up where warped Manchester Arena terrorist...

It is a move endorsed by Ian Acheson, a former prison governor whose 2016 review of Islamist extremism led to the introduction of SCs. He believes Abedi should be kept in total isolation, even if it 'turns him mad'. Speaking to the Mail last night...

Dr Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director, CEP is interviewed by The Bayerischer Rundfunk on the planned extradition of an Islamist preacher to Yemen.

A new study by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) places anti-Semitism at the center of extremist violent mobilization – and calls for a radical rethink in how we deal with it. The study, titled "The Role of Antisemitism in the Mobilization to...

CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: While the official counter-terror lexicon of most states labels such outbursts as ‘Islamist terrorism’, what authorities usually mean by that is the jihadist violence of the likes of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State...

The soldier's social media activity also includes participation in Nazi-era WWII reenactments, according to public posts reviewed by experts consulted by The Guardian. "The TikTok account affiliated with the group includes a clear statement...

Hashem Abedi, 28, inflicted "life-threatening" injuries on the officers at HMP Frankland in County Durham on Saturday. He is being held at the jail for his role in the deadly bombings eight years ago and his latest attack has outraged many, including...

The threat of violence has never been far away from crowded jails but the problem is now endemic. The rehabilitation of offenders cannot happen within an unstable system. As the former prison governor Ian Acheson says: “Broken staff cannot help fix...

Ian Acheson, a former prison governor who carried out a review of Islamist extremism in jails in 2016, described Hashem Abedi, 28, as the second most dangerous prisoner in the UK after the serial killer Robert Maudsley.

When I’m speaking to people who know nothing about prisons, I often start with an entertaining mind game.I ask people to imagine that they are on the board of a company with a turnover north of £6bn a year. The company makes widgets. The widgets have...