Day: June 25, 2025

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Updated: Prisoner RLUIPA Claims Aim at Guards, but States Usually Pick Up the Tab

When Damon Landor arrived at Louisiana’s Raymond Laborde Correctional Center in July 2020, he brought two things that mattered to him: waist-length dreadlocks grown for his Rastafarian faith and a copy of Ware v. Louisiana Department of Corrections (2017), a Fifth Circuit decision holding that RLUIPA protects religious hair. Guards tossed the opinion in the […]

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