Italy uses Imams in prisons to deter extremism among inmates

By Frances D’emilio
Wire Service Correspondent
TERNI, Italy (AP) – Italy’s plan to reduce the risk of a jihadi-inspired attack is pinned in small part on El Hacmi Mimoun, an imam who bikes to the prison here every week and exhorts Muslim inmates not to stray from life’s “right path” or hate people who aren’t Muslim.
Seven inmates – three Moroccans, three Tunisians and a Somali – left their cells at Terni Penitentiary on an early summer day to