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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>The number of far-right offenders in prison and being managed
by probation has grown in recent years. Our dedicated, specialist teams manage the
risks presented by all terrorists and extremists, including Right Wing Terrorists
and far-right offenders, in prison and the community. We are working across Government
to review and develop our capability to manage this cohort and safeguard the wider
offender population.</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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