debut: 11/14/02
201,170 runs
]Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were cut by prison officials
Gwan my dread.
Landor had served all but three weeks of his five-month sentence imposed for a drug-related criminal conviction in Louisiana when he was transferred to the Raymond Laborde Correction Center.
He was holding a copy of a court ruling that made it clear that practicing Rastafarians should be given a religious accommodation allowing them to keep their dreadlocks.
But a prison officer dismissed his concerns and Landor was handcuffed to a chair while two officers shaved his head..
He was holding a copy of a court ruling that made it clear that practicing Rastafarians should be given a religious accommodation allowing them to keep their dreadlocks.
But a prison officer dismissed his concerns and Landor was handcuffed to a chair while two officers shaved his head..
Gwan my dread.
