According to prison intelligence, it is alleged that non-Muslim inmates in some top-security jails in Britain have been forced into paying a “protection tax”, in other words, “jizya”. It is alleged that it has been enforced by Islamist extremist prisoners in England and Wales.
Prison intelligence have also alleged that religious extremists are using bullying threats and tactics to force non-Muslim inmates to convert to Islam or hand over their money, or give them their phone cards, food, tobacco and drugs.
A former Home Office official, Ian Acheson, has been appointed by the justice secretary, Michael Gove, to review the prison service's approach to dealing with Islamist extremism.
