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- Title: Reed v. Faulkner
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Release Date : January 29, 1988
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
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POSNER, Circuit Judge. Homer Reed an inmate in an Indiana state prison, has sued the prisor's officials, charging that they infringed his religious liberty and deprived him of the equal protection of the laws by enforcing against him a prison regulation that forbids male inmates to wear their hair so long that it touches the collar. The defendants on one occasion forced Reed to cut several inches off his shoulder-length ""dreadlocks"" (""long, ropy, matted, woolly strands,"" Note, Soul Rebels: The Rastafarians and the Free Exercise Clause, 72 Geo. L.J. 1605, 1608(1981)), and on other occasions disciplined him for his refusal to cut his hair. Reed claims that in doing these things the defendants violated his religious liberty as a Rastafarian and discriminated in favor of American Indians, against whom the regulation on hair length is riot enforced. The district judge gave judgment for the defendants after a two-day bench trial (at which Reed did not have assistance of counsel), and Reed, still without counsel, appeals.
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