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Seventh Circuit Upholds Removal of Prisoner’s Dreadlocks

By Prison Legal News The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that an Illinois prisoner’s religious rights were not violated when prison officials required him to cut off his dreadlocks to be transported to a court hearing. Peter A. Lewis, incarcerated at the Dixon Correctional Center, is a member of a religious sect called

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