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Rastafarians Spend a Decade in Solitary for Refusing Haircuts
A reader recently alerted us to this story, published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch in December. It marks ten years spent in solitary confinement by a group of Rastafarian prisoners in Virginia, who have been kept in lockdown for refusing to cut the beards and dreadlocks they wear in service of their religious beliefs. Beyond the violation of these inmates’ right […]
Jean Casella and James Ridgeway