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Dismissal of Haircut Suits Reversed by In two brief, separate rulings, the court of appeals for the Eighth circuit reversed and remanded the dismissal of lawsuits challenging prison haircut rules by Rastafarian prisoners. In one case, the court held the district court had improperly concluded the plaintiff had not exhausted …
Florida Prisoners Have Right to Present Evidence at Disciplinary Hearings by Florida Prisoners Have Right To Present Evidence At Disciplinary Hearings A Florida state appellate court held that a denial by prison authorities of an opportunity for a prisoner to present exculpatory evidence at a prison disciplinary hearing states a …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
Folsom New Year's Riot Over Haircut Policy by by W. Wisely Over 1,000 prisoners at California's medium security Folsom prison threw flaming toilet paper and sheets over the tiers, banged cell doors, and refused to eat on New Year's Day in protest over new grooming restrictions the Department of Corrections …
Turning the Screws in California by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely Each year, the California Department of Corrections asks the Legislature for an ever-increasing piece of the state's tax pie based in part on claims that violence in the prison system is increasing. The truth is, violent incidents inside have …
Eleventh Circuit Reinstates Beating Verdict by The court of appeals for the eleventh circuit reversed a judgment as a matter of law entered against a Florida prisoner after a jury found in his favor. The court reinstated both the verdict and a damage award for the prisoner. The court also …
PI Granted in Haircut Claim by A federal district court in Kentucky granted a motion for a Preliminary Injunction (PI) to a Hasidic Jew whose claimed his religious beliefs were violated when prison officials forced him to cut his hair. Several Kentucky state prisoners in Protective Custody (PC) filed suit …
Court Okays Disclosure of AIDS Status by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that prison officials may casually disclose a prisoner's AIDS status to other prisoners and staff but that denying barber services is unconstitutional. Dennis Anderson was an Illinois state prisoner with AIDS. The prison warden …
Missouri Haircut Rule Upheld under RFRA by Missouri Haircut Rule Upheld Under RFRA The court of appeals for the eighth circuit reversed a federal district court ruling which had held that a Missouri DOC rule requiring prisoners to have short hair and banning sweat lodges violated the Religious Freedom Restoration …
Texas Shaving Rule Declared Illegal by A federal district court in Texas ruled that a prison rule requiring prisoners be clean shaven violated a Muslim prisoner's religious rights and enjoined the rule. Johnson Lewis, a Texas state prisoner and a Muslim, filed suit claiming that prison regulations requiring that all …
Haircut Rule May Violate Equal Protection by A federal district court in Hawaii held that a prison rule requiring that prisoners have short hair and remain clean shaven may violate the constitution's guarantee to equal protection of law and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). Edmund Abordo, a Hawaii state …
Texas Grooming Code May Violate RFRA by 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 …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
SC Prisoners Protest Haircut Policy by In February, 1995, Michael Moore, a prison administrator from Texas, was appointed head of the South Carolina DOC. He promptly implemented the Aget tough on prisoners policies of recently elected Republican governor David Beasley. To date this has included cutting back on work release …
Unprovoked Assault States Claim by The sixth circuit court of appeals held that an unprovoked assault by Ohio prison guards states a claim for an eighth amendment violation. In doing so, the court rejected the prison guards' contention that unprovoked assaults do not, as a matter of law, state an …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Needs Haircut Information by John Harris I need to know if any prisons in the United States, state or federal, allow their prisoners to grow beards and have long hair. If you don't have their address just listing their names would be a start. Prisoners here at the Georgia State …
Prison Officials Liable for Haircuts by Four prisoners at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) with shag haircuts (where the hair is long in back and short in the front and on the sides) were ordered to get haircuts by prison officials. Two of the prisoners agreed to the haircuts, the …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Free Speech for Whom? by Mumia Abu-Jamal [EDITOR'S NOTE: In the Dec., 1992 issue of PLN we reported that supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal, the former Black Panther on death row in Pennsylvania accused of killing a cop, had shouted down Penn. Governor Casey at a forum in New York …
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Nydocs Grooming Policy 2005 STATE OF NEW YORK No. TITLE 4914 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DIRECTIVE Inmate Grooming Standards DISTRIBUTION SUPERSEDES Dir. #4914 dtd. 07/05/94 A B PAGE 1 OF 3 DATE PAGES LAST UPDATED REFERENCES (includes but are not limited to): 02/05/2001 04/25/2005 APPROVING AUTHORITY I. DESCRIPTION. This directive …
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Prison Grooming Policy Survey 2008-2009 GROOMING SURVEY OF CORRECTIONAL SYSTEMS' POLICIES AND PRACTICES.(12-2008 -1-2009) Long Hair Permitted for Religious Reasons Only State Long Hair Permitted Alabama No Inmate Handbook, No.1 02 Alaska Yes Reg. # 806.02 Arizona Yes Regulations: Dept. Order 704.01 Arkansas No Confirming Source(s) Case Law; Regulation . …
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