Court: Rastafari Louisiana inmate can keep his dreadlocks (opens in new tab)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana inmate can keep dreadlocks grown as part of his faith, a federal appeals court said Friday. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court judge and ruled in favor of Christopher Ware, an adherent of the Rastafari religion, who was represented in court by the American Civil Liberties Union. The court record says Ware, serving a 40-year state sentence for sexual battery, took a vow not to cut his hair. The state corrections system's grooming requi...