(VOVworld)- Extremist prisoners who "seek to poison the minds of others" will be put in special units in English and Welsh jails, the government has said.

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Justice Secretary Liz Truss also set out plans for the removal of extremist books from prison libraries and the stronger vetting of prison chaplains.  The Prison Reform Trust said the plan only dealt with "half of the problem". It comes after a report found there was "complacency" at the "growing problem" of Islamist extremism in jails. Ms Truss said the prison system "cannot continue" to allow extremist inmates to "pedal poisonous ideology across the mainstream prison population". She accepted there was a "risk" that a selected group of extremists could be become more influential when kept together, but she said authorities must "keep apart those who might collaborate together to create more problems". Ms Truss said the plan included giving prison staff the "training and the authority to deal with extremism".