If you don't do them, you can get locked in or sent out of the program because in this program you're required to do the exercises. I don't think it last too long. In general, the jails visited by Human Rights Watch held regular services for the religions represented in the detainee population. We were troubled, however, by numerous accounts from children in the Baltimore City Detention Center that indicate that the jail does not consistently allow juveniles to attend religious services. According to the accounts of children interviewed between July 1998 and May 1999, the jail has frequently discontinued religious services for juveniles over the past year.
Muslim children report that they have few opportunities to attend services for their faith.
They had church when I first came here, but I think they just stopped coming. 91 Dylan C. told Human Rights Watch in May 1999 that the jail had offered Wednesday religious services for a time at the beginning of the year. As Josh S. did, many of the children with whom we spoke seemed to value the opportunity to attend religious services. I think it stopped a lot of guys from doing stuff. Even when services were offered, Muslim youth reported that they were rarely given the opportunity to attend services led by an imam.