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Federal Government Pays Nation of Islam to Teach BOP Prisoners
Loaded on July 2, 2019
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2019, page 55
According to news reports, the Nation of Islam (NOI) and its leaders have been paid at least $364,500 by the federal government since 2008. The money was to fund NOI religious services, spiritual guidance services, study services and other programs, based on Bureau of Prisons records.
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