Damon Landor says his religious rights were violated under a law called the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.

A former Rastafarian inmate is challenging a court ruling that he isn't entitled to monetary compensation after his head was forcibly shaved at a Louisiana prison in violation of his religious ...

Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, a case brought ...

A Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved by Louisiana prison guards asked the Supreme Court to let him sue for damages.

(RNS) — On May 3, a Rastafarian serving a five-month sentence in in a Louisiana state prison filed a Supreme Court petition to seek damages after his jailers cut his dreadlocks, a hairstyle he ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off by prison guards in violation of his religious beliefs.

The Supreme Court ruled Damon Landor, a practicing Rastafarian, may proceed with his suit against the Louisiana Department of Corrections for cutting his locs. Landor’s initial suit was thrown ...

One Rastafarian boy from South Plaquemines High School in Louisiana has been banned from returning to school until he cuts his dreadlocks, reports the Raw Story. When classes resumed on Aug. 8 ...

A U.S. appeals court ruled Friday that a Rastafarian Louisiana inmate can keep his dreadlocks as part of his religion, Reuters reported. Christopher Ware, an inmate who has practiced the ...

WASHINGTON − Damon Landor was prepared to protect the dreadlocks he had been growing for nearly two decades, in adherence to his Rastafarian beliefs, when serving a prison sentence in Louisiana ...

LAFAYETTE, LA--The American Civil Liberties Union believes that Rastafarian children have the right to enroll in and attend school without having to choose between their religion and their education.

Supreme Court will hear case of Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were shaved by Louisiana prison guards Damon Landor carried a copy of a ruling by the appeals court in another inmate’s case holding ...