Each Year 30.000 Inmates Convert to Islam each Year alone

[Nusayba]

Sammy Daniels Jr. (aka - Abdus Sami 'Ali)was incarcerated
on Jan 5, 1993, converted to Islam and was paroled on
October 24, 2004 after 12 years behind bars. In an
exclusive Guidance Media documentary he tells of his
life's triumphs and struggles.

This is his story.

http://www.guidancemedia.com/videostream.php?id=prison3.mov

can a mod pls add " in the US" to the title of this thread...

[Arsalan]

Converts : Conversions in U.S. Prisons

300 000 converts to Islam in American, PRISONS

A prisoner at New Yorkأ¢â‚¬â„¢s Wende Correctional Facility hugs a guest during an eid celebration. (Courtesy of Jolie Stahl. Photos originally appeared in أ¢â‚¬إ“Black Pilgrimage to Islamأ¢â‚¬? (Oxford University Press, 2002))

Muslim prisoners prayer during an eid in the yard of New Yorkأ¢â‚¬â„¢s Wende Correctional Facility. (Courtesy of Jolie Stahl. Photos originally appeared in أ¢â‚¬إ“Black Pilgrimage to Islamأ¢â‚¬? (Oxford University Press, 2002))

Inmates holding copies of Al-Mujaddid (The Renewer), a newsletter produced by Muslim inmates at New Yorkأ¢â‚¬â„¢s Green Haven Correctional Facility. (Courtesy of Jolie Stahl. Photos originally appeared in أ¢â‚¬إ“Black Pilgrimage to Islamأ¢â‚¬? (Oxford University Press, 2002))

One of the most successful places for daأ¢â‚¬â„¢wa is in the prison system. It is estimated that more than 300,000 prisoners are currently converts to Islam and about 30,000 may be converting each year, according to scholar Jane I. Smith. Since the prison systems include a higher percentage of people of color, many of those converting are African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans.

The National Islamic Prison Foundation claims to convert an average of 135,000 prisoners a year and federal prison statistics estimate that 10 to 20 percent of prisoners in America are Muslims. Sulayman Nyang, a professor of African Studies at Howard University, estimated that one of 10 African-American Muslims today came to the faith through a prison conversion.

Lawrence Mamiya, a religion professor at Vassar College says that a vast majority of prison converts embrace Islam for reasons of survival. Acceptance into the community of those who are already Muslim is immediate and participation in Islamic activities helps solidify a convert's sense of identity.

In prison, Islam becomes أ¢â‚¬إ“a way of life that transforms what they think about, what they read, how they view the crimes they committed,أ¢â‚¬? Robert Dannin, author of أ¢â‚¬إ“Black Pilgrimage to Islamأ¢â‚¬? told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, in a story published July 7, 2002.



Source (http://mediaguidetoislam.sfsu.edu/intheus/06c_converts.htm)

[Al-ghurabah]

this is why the governemnt last year said muslims are being radicalised in prisons and now they isolate the muslims so they dont spread islam..
look how they are so scared of people becoming muslims

allah guides whom he wills to islam

[Raul-7]

Mash'Allah - that's great. It gives them great hope and strength for the Hereafter, may Allah bless them all. Ameen.

I knew prison would be a great place for da'wa; everyone there is hopeless, scared and there's no way they can ignore a fellow inmate's call to Islam. :D