ISIS supporter carves jihadist mantra into cell-mates head

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Isis supporter allegedly carves jihadist mantra into former soldier's head

The manager of a NSW prison has been stood down after a young Islamic State supporter allegedly attacked a former Australian soldier in a jail cell.

The 18-year-old allegedly carved “e4e” into his cellmate’s head, an apparent reference to the terrorist group’s “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” mantra, after lockdown at Kempsey prison on Thursday afternoon.

“As a result of that I have decided to suspend the general manager of the correctional centre pending the outcome of this investigation,” the New South Wales corrective services commissioner, Peter Severin, told reporters in Sydney on Sunday.

“If you are radicalised and at risk of engaging in violent extremism, you need to be locked up.

“You need to be very highly controlled.”

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Severin said the teenager should have been placed in a high-risk management correctional centre and has now been transferred to one.

It is alleged the 18-year-old also placed a towel over his cell mate’s face and poured boiling water onto him.

The 40-year-old former soldier was rushed to hospital with injuries to his head and sternum and burns to his face.

The teenager has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm and choking.

Severin said the decision to stand down the prison manager was not taken lightly.

“We really have to make sure that not only do we have good procedures in place, but they’re adhered to.”

A full investigation into the management of radicalised prisoners will also be launched.

The corrections minister, David Elliott, said he was outraged by the alleged attack.

“I will ask the inspector of custodial services for a full and thorough investigation of the management of radicalised prisoners in the system, including the assault,” Elliott said.
A spokesman for the Public Sector Association, Steve McMahon, said the department hadn’t taken the alleged attacker’s extremist views seriously and should have placed him in segregation.

“The 18-year-old, in our belief, had presented enough information and bad behaviour to have been segregated, or at the very least, been put in a single cell,” McMahon said.

The charged teenager will face Kempsey local court on May 23.

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ISIS supporters should be kept in isolation

By isolation, I mean total isolation so that they are unable to form links with other supporters while in prison

It is a well known fact that prisoners form bonds with other prisoners and often continue those friendships once they have been released

ISIS supporters must be prevented from forming such associations that inevitably lead to those leaving passing on information from those still incarcerated and increasing networks