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		<title>Muslim inmates get new clothes after sniffer dogs search their cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22670/"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/sniffer-dogs.jpg" alt="Sniffer dogs offend Muslims" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="Sniffer dogs offend Muslims"></a> A source at Dover prison said: “It seems ridiculous that staff have to go out of their way to treat these prisoners differently.
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Philip Davies, Tory MP for Shipley in Yorkshire, said: “Another way for people not to have their cells searched for drugs is not to commit crime in the first place. If you commit a crime and go to prison, there are certain things which you expect to happen.”]]></description>
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		<title>Messianic Jewish inmates claim discrimination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21783/"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/kosher.jpg" alt="Kosher" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;"></a> Messianic Jews believe in Jesus. But they still consider themselves as faithful to Judaism as anyone else.
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They want to eat kosher meals, avoiding pork and shellfish and not mixing meat and dairy products. But if they are inmates in Ohio prisons, they are out of luck. Kosher meals are a privilege afforded only to traditional Jews.]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Supreme Court rules against Muslim inmate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court said yesterday that a Muslim inmate cannot sue the government over the disappearance of the prisoner's copies of the Quran and a prayer rug.]]></description>
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		<title>Catering to our cons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cooks in Canadian jails whip up special religious fare for our incarcerated -- from Rastafarian to Wiccan]]></description>
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		<title>Kosher conflict in Missouri prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missouri prison inmate Norman Lee Toler was once labeled as a white supremacist, after, authorities say, he was caught in an Illinois penitentiary with seven photos of Adolf Hitler and a fresh "SS" tattoo.  This week, however, Toler was in federal court in St. Louis, saying he is Jewish and that his soul will be in jeopardy if he is forced to eat nonkosher food.]]></description>
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		<title>Prisoner Fights for Religious Expression</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a prison warden made him stop preaching, Spratt sued. This summer he won his case and the right to resume spreading the Gospel, which he does. He preaches to anyone and everyone willing to listen.]]></description>
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		<title>Prisons Will Return Religious Materials</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious materials are being returned to prison chapel libraries, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said Thursday, confirming plans to modify a program designed to remove religious books and videos that could incite violence.]]></description>
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		<title>Prison purges some religious books to thwart violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious books and materials once available to inmates at Mississippi's federal prison have been removed from the facility's library as part of a new national policy officials say is designed, in part, to thwart acts of violence or terrorism.]]></description>
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		<title>Florida suspends special meals for Jews, Muslims at state prisons</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19114/prison-religious-meals</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jewish inmates who follow strict religious diets at state prisons are no longer provided meals in line with their beliefs. Muslims must now eat vegan food to satisfy their religious requirements.]]></description>
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		<title>Inmate wins prison preaching fight</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18902/wesley-spratt</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wesley Spratt, an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church, preached for about seven years in prison after undergoing a religious awakening and receiving what he said was a calling from God.]]></description>
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