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This is a summary of reporting published by WTOC on June 23, 2026. It was not written by Georgia Prisoners’ Speak. GPS tracks coverage of Georgia’s prison system so the record stays in one place. The full article is on WTOC’s own site.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a Rastafarian inmate, Damon Landor, cannot sue Louisiana prison officials for forcibly shaving his dreadlocks, finding that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) does not provide a cause of action against individual officers under Congress’s Spending Clause authority. The decision, which split along ideological lines, drew a dissent from liberal…
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