Number of Muslims in British prisons doublesin adecade
London (UK) – The number of Muslims in the prison population has more than doubled to nearly 12,000 in a decade, figures from the Ministry of Justice show. The Muslim prison population has increased from 7.7 percent in 2002 to 14 percent in 2013 and is set to continue rising rapidly because of the large number of Muslim teenagers in youth jails. Muslims represent only 4.7 percent of the population in England and Wales, according to the most recent Census, yet one in seven prisoners (14 percent) in England and Wales is a Muslim. (Even in Bharat, the number of Muslim criminals is more in proportion when compared with the Muslim population. – Editor)