Supreme Court could use Rastafarian's dreadlocks to back prisoners' religious rights

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The court has been both very friendly to religious liberty claims and very hostile to lawsuits seeking damages against government officials.
53% : Those include a 1996 law passed in response to prisoner litigation and a legal doctrine known as "qualified immunity" that protects officials in many circumstances.
44% : "To be irrevocably deprived of such an important symbolic and physical connection to God against one's will," they wrote, "is a brutal and dehumanizing intrusion into a Rastafari's religious liberty that demands an avenue for recompense.
30% : Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative group that squared off against the liberal American Civil Liberties Union in a case last term about religious charter schools, teamed up with the ACLU and others in a brief supporting Landor.

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