LONDON: A British prison unit designed to hold terrorist inmates has been slammed by a new independent report for hardening extremist beliefs among prisoners. HMP Frankland in County Durham, England, hosts the specialist counterterror prison unit, which was flagged by a government organization for failing to keep inmates on deradicalization programs. The facility, which previously housed notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary, is the only terror separation center currently operating in the UK after the other two facilities were shut down in recent years. The report by the Independent Monitoring Boards referred to a serious attack on a prison officer and a “number of serious incidents of violent behaviour” and wider “antagonism and hostility to staff” at HMP Frankland.