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<p>There were a total of 70 adult prisons which had one or more directly employed
Muslim chaplain on 30 June 2014, representing 65% of all adult establishments. 14
establishments in the youth secure estate had one or more directly employed Muslim
Chaplain on 30 June 2014, representing 93% of the establishments. This information
includes both public and private sector establishments.</p><p> </p><p>Access to Muslim
Chaplains is more widespread than it appears from these figures. There are <del class="ministerial">393
imams employed across the prison estate, and the majority of establishments have access
to Muslim Chaplains even if they don’t have a directly employed Muslim Chaplain attached
to the establishment.</del><ins class="ministerial">100 imams employed across the
prison estate and additionally over 100 Muslim Chaplains appointed on a sessional
basis. All prisons have multi faith chaplaincy teams to provide and enable religious
and pastoral care. These teams invariably include at least one Muslim Chaplain to
provide for the religious needs of the Muslim prisoners. There are however one or
two prisons where it has not yet been possible to appoint a Muslim Chaplain and the
Muslim Adviser is working to appoint these. Where possible, an existing Muslim Chaplain,
or one of the Muslim Chaplaincy HQ Advisers, aim to lead the prayers in those prisons
on an occasional basis.</ins></p>
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