GETTY Concerns have spread over the radicalisation of inmates in prison

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The controversial new scheme aims to see some 450 new arrivals placed in various internships within prisons. Jobs could include prison guards, cooks and other jobs within correctional facilities across the country. And the scheme is already partway through a trial run, which has seen Justice Minister Morgan Johansson visit the Mariefred prison where two Iraqi asylum seekers are training as guards according to the Probation service website.

GETTY Jobs could include becoming prison guards and cooks

Khaled Taha, who is also being taught swedish as part of the internship, told the minister: “I want to work, and am very happy here at Mariefred. “Now I hope that I will manage basic education.” Helena Lönnkvist, project manager for the program, said: “Trainees become role models, both in our own operations and for the relatives and friends outside the Prison and Probation Service. “Our hope is that they will want to stay and go on to permanent employment.”

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Our hope is that they will want to stay and go on to permanent employment Helena Lönnkvist, project manager

Project director Mohamed Gulied added: “We need to recruit and this is a good way into the profession,” and said he hoped to receive more migrants into the program. But the scheme has sparked concerns over the potential for Islamic radicalisation in prisons. In France, a report last year claimed that French prisons, in which 60 percent of inmates are Muslim, had become a breeding ground for radical Islamic indoctrination. While in Britain, reports claim entire cell blocks of some prisons are run under a variation of Islamic sharia law.

GETTY The scheme has sparked concerns over the potential for Islamic radicalisation in prisons