An intelligence report said that prison seems to have deterred militants little as they are continuing with their malicious activities with the help of a section of unscrupulous guards, reports The Daily Star on January 22. Due to the company, they keep, some inmates have also become more radical in prison than they were when they were outside. From holding meetings, propagating their ideology, recruiting members, issuing directives to activists over the phone to providing financial support to families of arrested members, they are doing it all from behind bars, said Police officials. More worryingly, the prison guards helping the inmates are not doing it for money, they are doing it for ideological reasons, they added. 13 prison guards were found working for militant outfits. The guards provide inmates with phones and carry messages, the report said. As many as 1,963 militant suspects were arrested between January 2016 and August 2021, according to the Police Headquarters. Officials said some who got arrested for their links to radical websites or for sharing radical thoughts on social media became fully-fledged members of militant outfits in prison.