Islam in American Prisons: Black Muslims' Challenge to American Penology

This a theoretical work enhanced by criminal justice data about the long term social and political effects of the incarceration of young, urbanite and indigent African American males in American prisons. The central premise of this work is that unless this trend were to be stopped by a social, economic and criminologically sound overhauling of the American penological philosophy, incarceration will remain as the only viable and nonsensical approach to the issue of crime among this segment of population in this country. Naturally, the end result will be the furtherance of overcrowding in the correctional facilities (both at local, state and federal level) which in turn will further deteriorate the six pillars of American penological philosophy.

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