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Because of so many Christians, prison opts to become church.
A privately owned prison in Iowa applied for its 501c, non-profit after it realized that more than 90% of it's inmates were of the Christian faith. Ronald Reagan Correctional Penitentiary in Iowa State, home to 1604 prisoners, has a Christian housing rate of 98%. Warden Francis Jessop, saw this as an opportunity to turn his prison into a tax-free haven by turning it into a church. Warden Jessop, who used to be an televangelist under the name of Reverend Lou Sparkle of the Fi