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22 mar 2012 · This statistic shows U.S. prison chaplains estimations of the percentage of inmates belonging to different organized faiths and religions as of 2011. Chaplains surveyed reported that on average...
- Gender Distribution of U.S. Religious Groups 2017, by Faith Tradition
Age distribution of U.S. religious groups 2016, by faith...
- Educational Attainment of U.S. Religious Groups 2017, by Faith Tradition
Age distribution of U.S. religious groups 2016, by faith...
- Gender Distribution of U.S. Religious Groups 2017, by Faith Tradition
Today, religious people still play an important role in the U.S. criminal justice system. Almost all of the nation’s more than 1,100 state and federal prisons have at least one paid chaplain or religious services coordinator, and collectively they employ about 1,600 professional chaplains.2
22 mar 2012 · According to a survey of professional prison chaplains, America’s state penitentiaries are a bustle of religious activity. Chaplains say that efforts by inmates to convert other inmates are common and that at least some religious switching occurs.
landscapes of religious practice in prison in the United States and in Western Europe. We identify, among incarcerated people in the United States, Italy, and Germany, discernible drifts toward religious pluralization,
Inmates incarcerated in the United States penal system practice a variety of religions. Their basic constitutional right to worship has been reinforced by decades of court decisions and more recently by the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
As of 31 March 2021, Christianity was the most common religion or belief with 46% of prisoners, which is 3 percentage points more than last year. The second most prevalent belief was no...
22 mar 2012 · On average, the chaplains surveyed say that Christian groups make up about two-thirds of the inmate population, with Protestants, on average, estimated to comprise 51% of the inmate population, Catholics 15% and other Christian groups less than 2%.
