Four mosques are provided for inmates in Pentoville and Wandsworth jails. The report also found that any signs of improvement are due to deliberate attempts by imams to fit in, such as deliberately wearing non-traditional clothing. The Commission for Racial Equality is also currently investigating the prison service after an increase in reports of racist attacks against prisoners. The British government, in an effort to appease its significant Muslim minority, appointed Maqsood Ahmed as the Prison Service's first Muslim advisor in 1998 after 10 intensive years of lobbying. Rev. William Noblett was appointed last month as the new chief of religion for the Prison Service to guarantee that spiritual needs of Muslims and other non-Christian groups were met.
Muslim prisoners are the fastest growing, and second largest group, in British prisons.
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