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| Long Hair Still Means Long Segregation |
| By timesdispatch.com |
| Published: 01/03/2011 |
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Nearly a third of the state inmates released from segregation — some of them after more than a decade — for refusing to cut their hair are back in solitary confinement. In November, the Virginia Department of Corrections moved 31 out-of-compliance inmates from various prisons to a program at the Keen Mountain Correctional Center where they would be held in a "structured housing unit." Recently, the department confirmed that 10 of the inmates are back in segregation for refusing to participate in a program that phases in privileges and that ultimately requires them to shave and get haircuts before returning to general inmate population. The department will not allow the inmates to be interviewed, but according to letters from two of the 31 inmates, many of them are not happy with their new circumstances. Read More. |
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