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Groups criticize restrictive federal prison units over ?disproportionate number of Muslims?

By Alliance Alert

Washington Post: "The ACLU contends the units were designed to house terrorists, but also hold inmates convicted of other offenses. Among the inmates at the CMU in Terre Haute is American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh. Both groups contend a disproportionate number of CMU inmates - perhaps as many as 60 to 70 percent - are Muslim. The Center also contends that others are assigned to the CMU because of their political beliefs. In one case, it says, an inmate was transferred out of the CMU after he agreed to drop a lawsuit against the prisons bureau."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).