Prison guards forcibly cut inmate's dreadlocks, violating religious rights

SCOTUS will hear a former inmate’s claim his religious rights were violated. He says prison officials forcibly cut his dreadlocks.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were shaved by guards in violation of his religious beliefs

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a religious rights case involving a Rastafarian man in its next term, which begins in October.