Islam Inside Australian Prisons

[Black Orchid]

Prisoners are attempting to forcibly convert their fellow inmates to religion against their will, internal Corrective Services documents show.

ABC News has obtained New South Wales Government documents detailing a fight that broke out over religious lines in a Corrective Services facility last year.

The report notes the trigger was a group of prisoners attempting to forcibly "convert non-Muslim inmates to Islam".

The documents, which are censored in sections, were obtained under the GIPA Act and do not detail the specific Corrective Services facility.

They said quick intervention by prison staff appeared to have "broken up" the melee "before it could get out of hand".

The incident report provides a rare glimpse of the challenges faced by Corrective Services staff, who manage large groups of dangerous inmates, some seeking to indoctrinate others with radical views and extremist ideologies.

Extreme threats in the community
Prisoners seen as extreme threats while behind bars are still being released into the community, according to the documents.

ABC News has obtained operational procedures detailing the different categories and threats associated with dangerous inmates, including terrorists and members of bikie gangs.

A Corrective Services spokesperson confirmed there were 34 inmates in NSW who have been convicted of or charged with national security offences, designated as either a Extreme High Risk Restricted (EHHR) — the state's highest designation — or National Security Interest (NSI).

The documents also explain discharge procedures, which confirm inmates with an "Active Extreme Threat Inmate (ETI)" status are sometimes released from jail.

Corrective Services Commissioner Peter Severin said laws had recently been changed to ensure dangerous inmates were not granted parole.

Commissioner Severin said it would be "logical" for similar laws to apply to inmates who remained an extreme threat at the time of their release.

"I think it would only be logical to have continued detention powers, through legislation, where courts can make those decisions, like we already have with sexual offenders and extreme violent offenders," he said.

The documents do not explain whether high-risk inmates are tracked or monitored in the community by either intelligence agencies or police surveillance after their release.

In a statement, Corrective Services confirmed it engages with "various State and Federal Government agencies to develop programs and services" to target "high-risk offenders" and that it is working to "enhance its capabilities in this area".

Huge expenditure on anti-radicalisation programs
Earlier this month, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced a $47 million suite of new anti-radicalisation measures, including the creation of 30 extra Supermax places and an extreme security unit to house dangerous inmates inside Goulburn jail.

The documents outline a suite of policies and procedures for prison staff to assess, manage and attempt to reintegrate dangerous inmates.

This can include monitoring and recording of calls, mail and visitor conversations — including those in languages other than English.

"Then the practice is to disperse them ... to engage with them, to deradicalise," Commissioner Severin said.

"If that does not work, then we obviously need to consider the most secure way of managing them in our system."

Dangerous behaviour is managed with a system of verbal and written warnings, behaviour management plans and ongoing security reviews by prison staff, including intelligence experts.

While a range of counselling and psychological programs are available as treatment options, the documents suggest the isolation of the most extreme, violent inmates in High Risk Management Correctional Centres is sometimes the only way to ensure the security of staff, prisoners and other visitors.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-29/ ... ns/8660214

Part of Long Bay is having to be converted to house these high risk terrorists. As much as I am against capital punishment in general I am starting to think that it has merit.

[Neferti]

Do they get FREE prayer mats?

[Black Orchid]

WHEN more than 30 Muslim inmates get down on their prayer mats inside Goulburn’s Supermax prison and bow towards Mecca, it doesn’t much bother serial killer Ivan Milat.

As Ivan revealed in exclusive letters to news.com.au, he is one of just a handful of non-Muslim prisoners inside Australia’s most secure jail.

The seven times backpacker killer keeps to himself and leaves the convicted radical terrorists to their own, catered for by special prison diets, prison issue green prayer mats and copies of the Koran and the freedom to pray five times a day.

“Any special diets, Muslims etc. are catered for,” Milat told news.com.au.

“No guess work on that, once a person declares himself a Muslim then he always issued the religious friendly meals.

https://www.news.com.au/news/inside-aus ... f2978b307d

[Valkie]

Of course they would recruit muzzos in gaols

Perfect fodder for the CULT of DEATH

Stupid, barbaric, criminal, society outcasts, worthless creatures

Perfect Islamist

Very much like their sick, twisted, sociopath, self confessed pedophile prophet Mo

[brian ross]

Your report, BO is over 12 months old.

People who force others to worship in their religion are not nice but they are also not typical of Muslims in my experience. Your propagandising isn't working very well.

[sprintcyclist]

islam has not changed in 1400 years

a 12 month old report is a new as today for islam

[Black Orchid]

12 months merely means that the problem would have significantly escalated since it was reported. Thanks for pointing that out.

[Rorschach]

Your report, BO is over 12 months old.

People who force others to worship in their religion are not nice but they are also not typical of Muslims in my experience. Your propagandising isn't working very well.

Really?
What planet are you on bwian?
How many countries disallow other religions and the practice thereof eh....
What is the penalty for being an Islamic Apostate bwian?
The list goes on Dr of Divinity...

[brian ross]

12 months merely means that the problem would have significantly escalated since it was reported.

And the evidence for that is what, exactly?

Thanks for pointing that out.

Any time, BO. I am surprised that you are dredging old stories. Makes me wonder...

[Rorschach]

Oh dear once more bwian you seem in denial and an apologist for what is in fact happening. Why is that bwian? Some "mental disorder" I hear. I can believe it.

Face facts bwian, refute claims with facts there's a good boy go off and do some homework as a giant academic you should be good at that shouldn't you? Get your family to help you if you cant do it on your own

Jailhouse jihad: Violent inmates forcing prison conversions to Islam
news.com.auJune 30, 20171:37pm
Candace Sutton

SOME of Australia’s most dangerous inmates are forcing other prisoners to convert to Islam inside our most secure prison. VIOLENT and dangerous inmates are trying to force other prisoners in some of Australia’s worst prisons to convert to Islam against their will. The forcible conversions created such tension in one NSW jail that inmates began fighting each other in the prison yard, ABC News has reported.

The NSW Corrective Services documents obtained by the ABC also reveal that inmates seen as extreme high risk security threats are also being released into the community.

The documents do not state which prison the attempted Islamic conversion ended in a melee which was broken up by prison officers last year. But it was revealed earlier this year that Islam has become an obsession for the violent inmates who practice the religion inside Supermax.

Australia’s most secure prison, Supermax is so heavily populated with extremists it is often referred to as “Super Mosque”.
Muslim inmates pray in the yard at Goulburn correctional centre where the prisons boss admits the Supermax facility is a hotbed of Islam.
ABC News obtained censored prison reports under the GIPA Act.

They confirm there are 34 inmates in NSW who have been convicted of or charged with national security offences. These inmates are primarily held inside Supermax, or the High Risk Management Correctional Centre. The inmates, who are stamped Extreme High Risk Restricted (EHHR) or National Security Interest (NSI), only move between prisons in orange Guantánamo Bay style jumpsuits.
They are given an “Active Extreme Threat Inmate (ETI)” status and are sometimes released from jail.

As The Australian exclusively revealed earlier this year, even the state’s prisons commissioner Peter Severin acknowledges that Supermax is a hotbed of radical Islam. Mr Severin has recommended new laws be drawn up to detain up to 11 convicted terrorists beyond their prison terms.

Living inside Supermax — which has three separate units that house cells which have common day rooms shared by two or three inmates — are members of the 2005 Pendennis terrorist plot, and the newer wave of Islamic State-inspired extremists.

Supermax’s prisoner population also includes the most dangerous and cunning inmates in the country, who are considered likely to try to escape or to harm prison guards or bash other criminals.

The inmates have included Brothers 4 Life gang leader Bassam Hamzy, his gang rival Farhad Qaumi, and violent and unpredictable prisoner, Martin Toki, who is serving a minimum 22 years for his wife’s 2001 murder.

Qaumi was sentenced this month to a maximum 60 years’ jail for the murder of standover man Joe Antoun.

Execution style murderer Leith Marchant, serving 38 years, converted to Islam inside jail and became so radical that he shunned his mattress to sleep on bare concrete.

Supermax has 171 surveillance cameras and inmates are monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week, inside their cold 3x4 metre cells.
Muslim inmates are given special diets and prison issue prayer mats inside Goulburn jail. Serial killer Ivan Milat revealed to news.com.au, that it has become part of the routine inside Supermax for around 30 Muslim inmates to get down on their prison issue prayer mats.

The seven times backpacker killer keeps to himself and leaves the convicted radical terrorists to their own, catered for by special prison diets, copies of the Koran and the freedom to pray five times a day.

“Any special diets, Muslims etc. are catered for,” Milat told news.com.au.

“No guess work on that, once a person declares himself a Muslim then he always issued the religious friendly meals.

“Buy-ups cater for all cultures. The Muslims are entrenched in here only because they are here, they act no different in here or anywhere else.”

To further reduce risk of escape attempts and violence, inmates are shuffled between cells every few weeks, they are X-rayed regularly and so is their food.

The ABC report said Corrective Services did not reveal if or how high risk prisoners were tracked in the community after release.