For an insight into the current state of the British penal system, the case of Denny De Silva is as instructive as it is worrying. A drug-dealing murderer, on being jailed in 2016 he converted to Islam and ever since has been a thoroughly disruptive presence wherever he has been locked up. From battering inmates who don't share his beliefs, to smuggling in mobile phones to disseminate 'graphic and grotesque' Islamic State material, the 32-year-old is described as an 'extremist enforcer' who 'influences and incites' other Muslim prisoners wherever he goes. And so, in 2023, the decision was made to move him into a Separation Centre (SC). The units, each of which hold fewer than ten men, were established at three high-security prisons in response to the growing threat posed by Islamic extremists and terrorists in British jails. By creating 'prisons within prisons' the idea was to prevent inmates who have refused attempts to deradicalise from spreading their toxic message to other inmates. Given his track record, the decision to move De Silva would seem to have been eminently sensible. Not that he agreed. As well as demanding to go back on a normal wing, the career criminal launched a legally aided court battle in which he claimed his human rights had been breached. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14626675/Islamist-gangs-terrorising-staff-high-security-prisons-forcing-non-Muslim-inmates-join.html