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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Atheists And Believers In American Prisons: Atheists Are Markedly Under-represented

    
    
    By Rod SwiftI have expanded the figures to provide a % of the total respondents, and I have ranked them (they were presented to me alphabetically). These stats were obtained from their computer on 5 March 1997.

    Dear Mr. Swift:
    
    The Federal Bureau of Prisons does have statistics on religious
    affiliations of inmates.  The following are total number of
    inmates per religion category:
    
    Response              Number      %
    ----------------------------  --------
    Catholic               29267   39.164%
    Protestant             26162   35.008%
    Muslim                  5435    7.273%
    American Indian         2408    3.222%
    Nation                  1734    2.320%
    Rasta                   1485    1.987%
    Jewish                  1325    1.773%
    Church of Christ        1303    1.744%
    Pentecostal             1093    1.463%
    Moorish                 1066    1.426%
    Buddhist                 882    1.180%
    Jehovah Witness          665    0.890%
    Adventist                621    0.831%
    Orthodox                 375    0.502%
    Mormon                   298    0.399%
    Scientology              190    0.254%
    Atheist                  156    0.209%
    Hindu                    119    0.159%
    Santeria                 117    0.157%
    Sikh                      14    0.019%
    Bahai                      9    0.012%
    Krishna                    7    0.009%
    ----------------------------  --------
    Total Known Responses  74731  100.001% (rounding to 3 digits does this)
    
    
    
    Unknown/No Answer      18381
    ----------------------------
    Total Convicted        93112  80.259% (74731) prisoners' religion is known.
    
    
    
    Held in Custody         3856  (not surveyed due to temporary custody)
    ----------------------------
    Total In Prisons       96968
    
    
    I hope that this information is helpful to you.
    
    Sincerely,
    
    Denise Golumbaski
    Research Analyst
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    
    
    
    Now, let's just deal with the nasty Christian types, no?
    
    Catholic               29267   39.164%
    Protestant             26162   35.008%
    Rasta                   1485    1.987%
    Jewish                  1325    1.773%
    Church of Christ        1303    1.744%
    Pentecostal             1093    1.463%
    Jehovah Witness          665    0.890%
    Adventist                621    0.831%
    Orthodox                 375    0.502%
    Mormon                   298    0.399%
    
    Judeo-Christian Total  62594   83.761% (of the 74731 total responses)
    Total Known Responses  74731
    
    Not unexpected as a result. Note that atheists, being a moderate proportion of the USA population (about 8-16%) are disproportionately less in the prison populations (0.21%).

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