(LBC) Prison gangs are forcing inmates to convert to Islam with violence, a damning new report has found.
Prisoners are missing out on “protection” when they end up behind bars if they do not identify as Muslims, it said.
The report into religion in modern Britain found prisoners were coming across Qurans left on their beds and were being told to “convert or get hurt.”
Colin Bloom, the report’s author, said: “Failure to identify as a Muslim meant that at best the new prisoner would be denied ‘protection’ from the dominant Muslim gang on that wing, or at worst the new prisoner would be subjected to violence and intimidation from that same gang.”
