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Friday, June 17, 2011

Atheists in prisons

The Federal Bureau of Prisons does have statistics on religious affiliations of inmates. The following are total number of inmates per religion category:

Response Number %

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Catholic 29267 39.164%

Protestant 26162 35.008%

Muslim 5435 7.273%

American Indian 2408 3.222%

Nation 1734 2.320%

Rasta 1485 1.987%

Jewish 1325 1.773%

Church of Christ 1303 1.744%

Pentecostal 1093 1.463%

Moorish 1066 1.426%

Buddhist 882 1.180%

Jehovah Witness 665 0.890%

Adventist 621 0.831%

Orthodox 375 0.502%

Mormon 298 0.399%

Scientology 190 0.254%

Atheist 156 0.209%

Hindu 119 0.159%

Santeria 117 0.157%

Sikh 14 0.019%

Bahai 9 0.012%

Krishna 7 0.009%

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Total Known Responses 74731 100.001% (rounding to 3 digits does this)

http://www.holysmoke.org/icr-pri.htm

Hmmm, atheists make up around 4-6% of the US population but are less than one quarter of one percent in prison populations. Catholics and Protestants make up 74%. Even those "peaceful" Muslims are adding 7.2% to the prison populations. So, who is actually the group engaging in anti-social, immoral behavior?

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