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 ...

It seems hair discrimination goes beyond the workplace and schools. Here’s the kicker: at no point during the transfer process was Thurman’s hair searched. They even put the cut locs in a bag to go ...

A Birmingham student was left “angry and upset” after being turned away from a temping agency because she has dreadlocks. Cheyanne Arnold was told by TempTribe that her hair was unprofessional and did ...

The February 2021 prison memo sent by Warden Brad Adams was clear. “Effective immediately” inmates in the medium-security, all-male prison known as the Northpoint Training Center in central Kentucky, ...