CEP Senior Advisor Professor Ian Acheson on Channel 4 News

CEP Senior Advisor and former prison governor, Professor Ian Acheson peaks to Cathy Newman about the emergency legislation the U.K. government is preparing which would end automatic early release for terrorists.

CEP Senior Advisor "Ian Acheson, who led an independent review of Islamic extremism in the criminal justice system, told the BBC that the risk-management system was 'broken.'"

"Ian Acheson, who carried out a review of the management of Islamist extremists in jail, said the prison service did not have the aptitude to manage terrorist offenders."

"'We may need to accept there are certain people who are so dangerous they must be kept in prison indefinitely,' Ian Acheson, who carried out a review of how such offenders were treated, told BBC radio."

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"Three years before Usman Khan stabbed two young people to death on London Bridge, Ian Acheson warned that the way the justice system treated violent extremists was a shambles. He wrote a report for the then Justice Secretary, Michael Gove, which...

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