The Lebanon County Correctional Facility’s handbook says no inmate can have long hair unless it is worn in a ponytail or a bun. But for many black inmates, that rule doesn’t apply. Instead, they are ...

There has been a positive gradual change in attitude towards dreadlocks in our society and this warmness has encouraged more people to embrace this hairstyle. Dreadlocks are more sought after because ...

A Kentucky state prison warden issued a memo banning braids, cornrows or dreadlocks for inmates being moved in or out of a facility or in solitary confinement. Carlos Thurman, 50, alleges in a federal ...