There Are 11,073 Muslims In Federal Prisons But Just 13 Chaplains To Minister To Them

Mar 31

Abdul Muhaymin al-Salim converted to Islam during his incarceration on drug charges at a federal prison in South Carolina from 2004 to 2014. In his first year there, the 49-year-old remembers a Muslim volunteer coming to the prison a couple of times a month to lead religious services.

Then, in the second year, during Ramadan, a holy month for Muslims, the volunteer was no longer allowed in the prison. Al-Salim never found out why.

There Are 11,073 Muslims In Federal Prisons But Just 13 Chaplains To Minister To Them

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