Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado will pay $245,000 to a Muslim man who was forced to shave his beard in prison in violation of his religious beliefs, court records show. Tajuddin ...

WASHINGTON — Arkansas Deputy Attorney General David Curran struggled Tuesday to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that a state prison policy requiring clean shaven inmates should apply to those whose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State corrections officials have told The Times the policy was not specifically targeting facial hair but instead focusing on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The federal government went to court against California’s prison agency Monday morning, asking for an order to stop the ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — Damon Landor’s decadeslong vow against cutting his hair was upended by a short stint in a Louisiana prison in 2020. Next week the Supreme Court will decide if he can do anything ...

Federal civil rights attorneys asked a judge on Monday to require California’s prison agency to respect its guards’ religious rights and stop enforcing a new policy that bans Sikhs, Muslims and others ...

A California correctional officer stands at a gate on the grounds of Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, Calif., on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Andrew Kuhn akuhn@mercedsun-star.com The federal government ...

The federal government went to court against California’s prison agency Monday morning, asking for an order to stop the enforcement of a ban on beards for officers who wear facial hair because of ...