Yahoo! News - Inmate Loses Court Bid to Grow Hair: "Fri Aug 13, 8:51 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - 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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