(Brussels Times) Pressure from terrorists and radicals in Belgian prisons is gradually decreasing, according to a report on the fight against radicalisation in Belgian prisons written by Egmont Institute researcher Thomas Renard.
At the end of May, there were 165 inmates linked to terrorism and radicalisation in Belgian prisons, according to the criteria of the Directorate General of Penitentiary Institutions (DG EPI), accounting for 1.7% of all prisoners. Most of these prisoners were found to have links with radical Islamist ideology, with the exception of 5 prisoners classified as extreme right-wing extremists.
These prisoners are fewer in number than at the beginning of 2018, when there were 250 inmates in this category. Half of them were sentenced to less than 10 years in prison.
