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Injunction Prohibits Virginia Grooming Policy Enforcement on BOP Prisoners
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2003, page 20
A federal district court for the District of Columbia granted an injunction to a class of Rastafarian and Muslim prisoners holding the requirement that those prisoners must cut their hair or shave their beards imposes a substantial burden on their religious beliefs. The prisoners are in the custody of the ...
Filed under:
Classification,
Out of State Transfers,
Injunctions (PLRA),
Grooming Rules.
Location:
Virginia.
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