RFRA – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:20:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png RFRA – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 Holt v. Hobbs (2015): Who Then Can Be Shaved? https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/holt-v-hobbs-2015-who-then-can-be-shaved/ Sun, 24 Jul 2022 21:08:21 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/holt-v-hobbs-2015-who-then-can-be-shaved/ The Arkansas Department of Corrections doesn’t allow prisoners to grow beards (with some exceptions made for inmates with specific skin conditions). The argument was that inmates could conceivably hide contraband in their beards and that shaving them off would allow them to quickly change their appearance should they escape.

One suspects these were largely rationalizations, but prison isn’t primarily intended to be a great place for personal expression, so maybe officials have the right to tweak a few rules for their own purposes.

 

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