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Where can I find information about extremist and radicalized groups in prisons?

Countering Violent Extremism in Prisons Program

Global Center on Cooperative Security, 2017

6 strategies for preventing radicalization in US jails and prisons

Atherton, Eugene, 2017

Having a comprehensive, written policy is very important in managing inmates who wish to radicalize others towards terrorist behavior

Terror Inmates: Countering Violent Extremism in Prison and Beyond

Statement of Jerome P. Bjelopera, Specialist in Organized Crime and Terrorism before Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, U.S. House of Representatives, 2015

Community-Level Efforts to Prevent Violent Extremism [Video]

National Institute of Justice (NIJ), 2016

Are Prisons Really Schools for Terrorism? Challenging the Rhetoric on Prison Radicalization

Jones, Clarke R., 2014

"This article challenges contemporary research on prison radicalization and recruitment by highlighting several factors that may hamper these activities to demonstrate why some prison regimes and their programmes for housing terrorist inmates face a greater risk than others."

Document ID: 031360

Facts and Fictions about Islam in Prison: Assessing Prisoner Radicalization in Post-9/11 America

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), 2013

"This report explains how violence due to prison radicalization by Muslims is a rare event."

Document ID: 028460
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