The Supreme Court appeared to lean against a devout Rastafarian trying to sue prison officials who cut off his dreadlocks during oral arguments for the case that lasted nearly two hours on Monday.

In 2020, Damon Landor was serving a five-month sentence for drug possession. According to The Associated Press, Landor continuously carried a copy of an appeals court ruling in another inmate’s case holding that cutting religious prisoners’ dreadlocks violated the federal law.

The first two places Landor was held respected his beliefs. But then he was transferred to the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center in Central Louisiana for the final three weeks of his term.

Court records state a prison guard took the copy of the ruling Landor carried and tossed it in the trash, and the warden ordered gu

See Full Page