Terrorism laws are to be strengthened to make it easier and quicker for convicted terrorists to be separated from the rest of the prison population, The Times has learnt.
Dominic Raab, the justice secretary, is expected to accept a series of recommendations from the terrorism watchdog next week to stop prisons becoming breeding grounds for extremism. He is also expected to announce the creation of new offences to target acts of terrorism being committed in jails in England and Wales that are going unpunished at present.
The move will make it easier under the Terrorism Act to prosecute prisoners who seek to radicalise fellow inmates or attack prison guards, and to ensure they spend longer behind bars and that their actions are
