[citation needed] Famous terrorists such as Salah Abdeslam are at the top of the "social pecking order" in prisons in western Europe.
"[2] Islamists recruited young prisoners by talking to them through cell windows and in exercise yards about the unjust treatment of immigrants in Europe and the Muslims killed in the Western invasion of Iraq.
[2] A French government audit of the prison system described radical Islamists as constituting a sort of prison "aristocracy," governing fellow inmates by forbidding them to listen to music, shower, or watch a women's sports event on television.
[1] They possess cell phones and are in regular contact with fellow Islamists both in Europe and in the Middle East.
)[1] The terrorist who shot up a museum in Brussels was radicalized in a French prison,[1] as was mass murderer Amedy Coulibaly.