From rehabilitation to recruitment : Stopping the spread of terrorist doctrines within our prisons before it becomes a national security problem

In September, quisition of weapons and travel documents and provided 2009, he became the second member of the Toronto 18 “encouragement, advice, and direction” to other terrorists to plead guilty to participating in the activities of a home- living in Canada. [...] Far from being the last phase of a successful security explore the processes involved in radicalization both outside operation, the incarceration of individuals who orchestrate, and inside prison, and put forward recommendations for support, and facilitate terrorism represents the beginning dealing effectively with prison radicalization in Canada. [...] How- centage of charges derived from other ever, unlike the British sample, a vast criminal arrests – and in 340 cases the majority of these inmates are not Span- most serious charge was considered to A Catholic memorial for the victims of the iards. [...] Internal government documents reveal that the (including, most notably, the Madrid train-bombing trials in British government projects the number of terrorist prison- October, 2007, and an associated Supreme Court ruling in ers to soar to more than 1,500 by 2017.23 July, 2008, the Madrid courthouse plot trials in February, 2008, and the Barcelona subway-plot trials in December, The number of self- [...] By comparison, the scale of the threat in Canada is much Found guilty of financing terrorism in the UK and of having less severe.42 Neither the 2008 nor the 2009 statistical re- designed and constructed a remote-controlled transmitting ports on Canada’s prison population from the Department device capable of setting off home-made explosives, Mo- of Public Safety makes any mention of terrorism or t