What a perfect place to recruit terrorists though.
Men incarcerated with a huge chip on their shoulder against our society for the predictament they are in.
Hateful angry people need a cause too.
Prisons are ripe for the picking.
Funded by Saudi's, and encouraged by most states. Approved at the federal BOP as well.
This is an article from the UK, but it probably applies to the US also.
Our prisons are fertile ground for cultivating suicide bombers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-1713671,00.html
TWO OF Britain’s bombers, Richard Reid and Muktar Said-Ibrahim, converted or reconverted to Islam in prison. This is a very small number, of course, but as we have just seen, it does not take large numbers of such people to effect a huge change in a country’s atmosphere. And the omens for the emergence of more of them are not good.
First, the number of Muslim prisoners has risen sixfold over the past 15 years. With more than 4,000 such inmates they make up 70 per cent of prisoners from minority groups. They are mostly of Pakistani descent, and the relative absence of people of subcontinental origin who follow other religions is equally striking.
Secondly, Islamic proselytising is prevalent in our prisons. An outside observer might conclude from the religious literature that he sees there that Britain is more an Islamic than a Christian country. I was often surprised on entering a cell in the prison in which I worked to discover a booklet with a title such as The Basic Teachings of Islam. More often than not, this will be the prisoner’s first experience of reading abstract principles.
Time to step up the Prison Ministries for the GOOD SIDE!
Malcolm X converted in prison in the fifties.....nuff said.