Britain's high-security jail cells, also called "jihadi jails", created to hold the country's most dangerous convicted terrorists, are going empty despite an unprecedented threat from Islamist extremists, as the Prison Service fears being sued for breaching their "human rights", according to a report by The Sunday Times.
Fewer than half of these "separation centres" are currently occupied despite conviction of more than 160 terrorists and only seven have been moved to the units, including the notorious Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary. These centres were created to house those who pose a significant “national security threat” and were introduced after an investigation into prison extremism commissioned in 2015.
