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Forcible Cutting of Illinois Prisoner’s Dreadlocks Found Unconstitutional
Loaded on April 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2013, page 44
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that an Illinois prison guard violated the First Amendment rights of a prisoner by ordering his dreadlocks to be forcibly shorn. The appellate court further held the guard was not entitled to qualified immunity.Illinois prison policy allows prisoners “to have any ...
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