Supreme Court to Review Case of Rastafarian Inmate Whose Dreadlocks Were Forcibly Removed in Louisiana Prison
Supreme Court to Review Case of Rastafarian Inmate Whose Dreadlocks Were Forcibly Removed in Louisiana Prison Damon Landor, a Rastafarian inmate, is appealing to the Supreme Court to determine whether he can sue individual Louisiana prison officials for damages after his dreadlocks, worn for religious reasons, were forcibly cut off while he served a five-month sentence in 2020 for drug possession. Landor had been growing his dreadlocks for nearly two decades. For the first four months of his sentence, he…