Thursday, November 09, 2006

Feds eye terrorist recruiting in prisons / USA Today, 6 Nov 2006

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Mimi Hall
"The federal government is working with prisons in dozens of states to improve intelligence gathering and monitoring of inmates in a stepped-up campaign to curb homegrown terrorism behind bars. The FBI and Homeland Security are urging prison officials to do more extensive background checks on workers and volunteers who meet with inmates. And members of Congress are looking at possible reforms in prison security as a way to combat the spread of extremist Islamic beliefs. Chief among the concerns is that radical Muslim clerics could have access to prisoners and coerce them with terrorist literature."