BOP Discrimination Against Muslim Prisoners
Posted on Sat Mar 12, 2005 at 11:36:00 AM EST
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by TChris
A semiannual report of possible civil rights violations by the Justice Department asks whether federal prison guards and wardens are discriminating against Muslim prisoners.
In one instance at the unidentified federal prison, the warden "unjustly and inappropriately" ordered an inmate transferred to special housing similar to solitary confinement for more than four months, Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said. The move came five days after the inmate talked to Fine's investigators.
Fine's report provides evidence that the Bureau of Prisons simply refuses to address the mistreatment of Muslim prisoners. Fine "documented the mistreatment of Arabs and Muslims detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn" more than a year ago, but no prison officials have been disciplined.
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