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Prison gangs and groups that threaten security include the Five Percent Nation (a reference to blessed black men).
The Department of Corrections considers it a hate group.
The Five Percent Nation (also known as the Nation of Gods and Earths) was founded after its leader, “Father Allah,” broke away from the Nation of Islam.
Some of Father Allah’s teachings are based on something called the “120 lessons.”
The Department bans prisoners from possessing any materials about the Five Percent Nation for three reasons.
First, “Five Percenters” promote black racial supremacy by teaching, among other things, that white people are evil and black men are divine.
Second, they use codes – known as “Supreme Mathematics” and the “Supreme Alphabet” – that obscure from untrained staff problematic content.
And third, in other states some prisoners who identified as Five Percenters engaged in violence and unlawful activity years ago.
Earnest Beamon, Jr. v. Michael Dittmann, No. 16-3545 (7th Cir. 2017). United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Chicago, Illinois 60604. Order. Submitted December 21, 2017. Decided December 21, 2017
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