The presence in Spanish prisons of individuals linked with jihadist terrorism has alerted the authorities to the risk that these prisoners may pose as agents for radicalization and the establishment of organizational structures inside prisons. To address this risk, Spanish authorities have used similar policies to those applied to prisoners belonging to the Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) terrorist group, subjecting jihadist prisoners to a restrictive detention regime. Based on the data obtained from analysis of the judicial proceedings of 264 individuals imprisoned for jihadist acts and information from the questionnaires completed by 60 prison officers in direct contact with those persons, this article considers whether it is appropriate to indiscriminately apply a high security regime to these types of prisoners.

与圣战恐怖主义有关的人在西班牙监狱中的存在提醒当局注意这些囚犯可能成为激进化和在监狱内建立组织结构的代理人的风险。为了应对这一风险，西班牙当局采用了与适用于属于 Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) 恐怖组织的囚犯的政策类似的政策，对圣战囚犯实行限制性拘留制度。根据对 264 名因圣战行为而入狱的人的司法程序进行分析所获得的数据以及与这些人直接接触的 60 名狱警填写的调查问卷的信息，本文考虑了不分青红皂白地应用高度安全制度是否合适这些类型的囚犯。