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| Inmate loses court bid to grow hair |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 08/13/2004 |
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Californian prison officials can cut the hair of an inmate despite his objection that to do so would violate his Native American religious beliefs, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday. Philip Henderson had maintained that cutting his hair, except under extraordinary circumstances, would defile the creator. But the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals backed a lower court ruling that said the California Department of Corrections' reasons for requiring short hair -- such as making inmates easier to detect if they try to escape -- were justified. "We therefore affirm the district court's judgment and its conclusion that the CDC's hair length regulation is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests," the three-judge panel ruled. |
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