Supreme Court Reviews Whether Prison Officials Can Face Damages for Forcibly Cutting Rastafarian Dreadlocks
The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing for the first time whether individual prison employees may be held financially liable for violating an inmate’s religious rights, a dispute that centers on a Louisiana Rastafarian whose decades-old dreadlocks were shorn against his wishes. The justices heard oral arguments this week in the case of Damon Landor v. […]