Testing the Notion that Prisons are Schools for Terrorism: Examining radicalization and disengagement in the Philippine corrective system

This paper gives a brief overview of my research in the Philippines, which seeks to address the best ways to incarcerate terrorist offenders. There is still much conjecture about how governments should incarcerate terrorist offenders. Should terrorist offenders be segregated together, or even isolated away from other inmates to prevent prison radicalisation, or should they be dispersed into the general prison population with minimal risk? So far, strategies for housing terrorist inmates remain inconsistent in many countries and there have been very few empirical studies undertaken to determine the most effective way to house them.