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Spongebobsquarejuche [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days ago

Supreme Court rules Rastafari man can’t sue Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocks

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Supreme Court rules Rastafari man can’t sue Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocks

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Spongebobsquarejuche [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days ago
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The Supreme Court has barred a former Louisiana inmate from suing prison officials who cut his dreadlocks in violation of his Rastafari religious beliefs.
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  • HandsHeartEyes [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Just hilariously evil. We really love our slave torture centers too much to ever impose on tbeir ability to torture slaves.

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    The court held that a federal law designed to protect inmates’ religious rights does not permit lawsuits for money damages, agreeing with lower courts that had ruled the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act can’t be used to hold those who violate inmates’ rights financially responsible.

    Then… what’s the remedy? Are they put on Santa’s naughty list?

    Rights without enforcement mechanisms are suggestions. Joke country.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Holy mother of fuck - freedom of religion in the US is a joke. It only pertains to rightwing fundies who get their fee-fees hurt.

    • XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      same as every other freedom in this country. freedom for the rich to dominate and immiserate the poor, that’s the only freedom we have

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    I lucked out that my therapist is a good person. She totally believes in prison reform and thinks they are barbaric. I know it’s not abolition, but it’s the next best thing from a lib. I really could have gotten linked up with a chud. Anyway, prisoners have rights but society like to think they don’t.

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      Prison in America is slavery and torture. Dooming the people who enter the ‘justice’ system. The dehumanizing is so complete jokes are made about ‘dropping soap’ making lite ofremoved. I hate correction officers more than cops. ‘Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them’.

      • la_tasalana_intissari_mata [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Even spongebob made the joke

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    Holy shit, fuck everyone who was part of this minus the victem of course. Fuck the prison system

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      Emma Goldman fucked in the prison system 🧐

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      deleted by creator

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    wtaf

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    illegal-to-say

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