Supreme Court rules against Rastafarian who sued prison officials for cutting his dreadlocks
Guards threw a previous decision in the trash before holding him down
Landor had a few weeks left in his sentence for drug possession when guards at a Louisiana prison handcuffed him to a chair and shaved off the knee-length dreadlocks he had grown over nearly two decades. Minutes earlier, Landor had handed his guards a judicial opinion demonstrating that they were required to allow dreadlocks for religious purposes.
The guards tossed that opinion in the trash before holding Landor down and cutting his hair.
He was incarcerated without incident at two other facilities before he was transferred to the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center. He came armed with a copy of an appeals court ruling from 2017 that allowed prisoners to have dreadlocks.
Landor, who began serving a five-month prison sentence in 2020, had previously taken a promise known as the Nazarite vow to not cut his hair.
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