Prisons reward compliance, not deconversion

Prison rehabilitation regimes tend to measure and reward behavioral conformity and the use of approved anti‑extremist language rather than verify durable ideological change. Risk tools and cognitive‑behavioural programmes can be gamed by committed offenders who learn the rhetoric without abandoning core beliefs, producing false signals for parole and community safety. — If custody systems prioritize surface compliance over demonstrable belief revision, parole decisions and counter‑terrorism strategies will systematically understate recidivism risk and misallocate supervision resources.