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The platform includes articles from external sources to supplement its available information. Reporting on the state of prisons around the world is a complex, laborious task. The Prison Insider team develops a weekly press review in three languages in order to provide wider coverage of current events in the world’s prisons. This monitoring process helps promote journalism by various media and reflects a commitment to transparency and collaboration.
United States: if you’re Muslim in these prisons, you’ll have to pay up
In state and federal prisons, about 9% of people identify as Muslim. Whether intentional or not, imprisoned people tend to have fewer options to purchase Islamic religious items than non-Islamic items, and the ones they can buy often cost more.
Source: prison journalism project (10/06/2025)