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Calls for urgent review of anti-terror schemes in prisons over fears inmates are conning system

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Deradicalisation programmes in prisons need a "fundamental review", a union has said. The Prison Officers' Association (POA) said there needed to be "stricter guidelines" on projects like those the London Bridge attacker Usman Khan took part in.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's File On 4, the union's national chairman Mark Fairhurst said: "I would say it's very easy to fake anything in a prison."We need stricter guidelines, let's not play games with people's lives."His comments came after former governor Ian Acheson said violent extremism is "clearly not under control" in jails and there is an "institutional squeamishness" among Government officials to tackle the problem.While Jonathan Hall QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation,

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