ABSTRACT
Nashif describes the Israeli prisons as one of the major sites of Palestinian national movement and Hajjar defines it as part of the sociocultural bonds that unite Palestinians in the Occupied Territories as a community. Criminology theories highlight the process that a prisoner goes through while in prison as a very traumatic and painful one, with the prisoner losing his total freedom along with his identity and personal safety. According to data held by the Israeli prison system (IPS), the security prisoner is entitled to study independently any subject he wishes to in accordance with the security limitations. In the Israeli prisons, the security prisoners are not allowed by their leadership to individually approach the guards and the prison authority. The results relating to the analysis of radicalisation or de-radicalisation of the leaders in Israeli prisons are not definite, or indeed similar, to the formal de-radicalisation programmes used in other countries and described elsewhere in it.
