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<p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) works closely with a range of
partners to tackle extremism of all ideologies in prisons, including ideologies held
by far-right offenders. An HMPPS and Home Office Joint Extremism Unit (JEXU) was established
in April 2017 to be the strategic centre for all counter terrorism work in prison
and probation and have oversight of delivery across the end-to-end offender management
process.</p><p> </p><p>Prisoners identified as being of extremist concern, or who
have shown signs of being vulnerable to extremism, are managed actively as part of
a comprehensive case management process. Over 22,000 prison staff have received specialist
extremism awareness training, to enable them to identify, report and challenge extremist
views.</p><p> </p><p>HMPPS uses a wide range of interventions as part of its management
of extremist offenders in prison. These range from assessment tools, such as the Extremism
Risk Guidance 22+ and Extremism Risk Screening, to rehabilitative measures such as
the Healthy Identity Intervention, Developing Dialogues, and the Desistance and Disengagement
Programme. Interventions play an important role in helping to encourage and facilitate
desistance and disengagement from extremism, support reintegration into society, and
reduce the risk of further offending. All of these interventions are available to
far-right offenders, if required.</p>
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