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Hair Trigger
A Sikh inmate challenges the hair policy in a California prison.
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| A Sikh inmate in a San Luis Obispo, Calif., prison and the U.S. Justice Department are suing the state Department of Corrections for religious discrimination for disciplining him for refusing to trim his beard. Sukhjinder Basra, who is serving time for a drug offense, claims that he was ordered to perform extra prison duties, spend 10 days confined to his bunk, and was docked 30 days of credit for good behavior after he refused to trim his beard to the mandated half-inch |