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| New rule lets inmates grow longer beards |
| By arkansasonline.com- Jeannie Roberts |
| Published: 02/06/2015 |
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LITTLE ROCK -- Arkansas prison system inmates can now grow a beard -- without length limitations -- if their religion dictates it. The new administrative directive, signed Thursday by Arkansas Department of Correction Director Wendy Kelley after a review by the Arkansas Board of Corrections, comes on the heels of a Jan. 20 U.S. Supreme Court ruling the state prison system cannot prohibit an inmate from wearing a half-inch beard grown for religious reasons. Arkansas Department of Correction inmate Gregory Houston Holt, who goes by the name Abdul Maalik Muhammad, filed the case against then-prison Director Ray Hobbs, claiming his religious rights as a Muslim were violated when prison officials denied his request to grow a half-inch beard. The Supreme Court rejected the state's argument an inmate could hide dangerous contraband in a beard or could shave the beard as a disguise. Read More. |
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