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Texas Grooming Code May Violate RFRA
Loaded on May 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1996, page 7
The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that a district court erred in dismissing a Texas prisoner's claim that prison grooming regulations, requiring that prisoners be clean shaven and have short hair, violated his rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The court upheld dismissal of these ...
Filed under:
Grooming Rules,
Religious Freedom Restoration Act,
Religious Freedom,
Religious Grooming.
Location:
Texas.
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