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Conversion to Islam in U.S. prisons
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<p>The contemporary rate of <a href="/facts/Conversion_to_Islam/m3QeGpVw">conversion to Islam</a> is high in <a href="/facts/American_prisons/4gKXnqqq">American prisons</a>, for which there are a number of factors. It is the <a href="/facts/Growth_of_religion/xf3ApH5z">fastest growing religion</a> in U.S. prisons, where the population is 18 percent <a href="/facts/Muslims/W2ukq4pg">Muslim</a> in federal prisons and 9 percent Muslim in state prisons, compared to 1 percent for <a href="/facts/Islam_in_the_United_States/FN9N54D3">the general population</a>. 80 percent of all prison religious conversions are to Islam. </p>