Introduction -- Muslims, Islam, and crime in the United Kingdom -- Excluded and borderline lives : crime and existential fear -- Bars, fluorescent lights, and alienation : 'the torment of the grave' -- Rediscovering Islam in prison : between wonder and cognitive opening -- The shahadah of freedom : from doctrinal to imagistic modes of Islam -- From caged bodies to caged souls : the dystopian experience of leaving prison -- Conclusions.