ABSTRACT
Traditionally, the classic terrorist organizations that we knew in Europe and Spain reproduced their organizational structures in prisons, which they considered one more front in the development of their activity. Twenty years have passed since the appearance of jihadist terrorism in Spain. The entrance into our prisons of inmates linked to the said phenomenon does not correspond to the framework of the terrorist organizations we knew. Collectives of prisoners linked to nationalist or political terrorism that operated in Spain previously functioned as homogeneous groups with internal organization structures, and as important apparatuses of socioeconomic and judicial support abroad. In contrast, the current Spanish prison population linked to jihadism does not present defined or clear characteristics, so our system of control bases itself in tools that have an important component of ambiguity and subjectivity. In this chapter, we will analyze the evolution in the typology of prisoners linked to jihadism in Spain, and we will observe the differences these types of prisoners show at both group and individual levels with respect to inmates belonging to classic organizations like ETA. Furthermore, we will try to advance understanding of how the processes of radicalization in prisons will develop in the future.
