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Inmate seeks end to solitary over refusal to cut dreadlocks

by Associated Press
| February 25, 2020 12:10 PM

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An inmate awaiting trial in a shooting case wants a federal judge to release him from solitary confinement in a central Pennsylvania county jail, where he has been for more than a year because he refuses to cut dreadlocks that hold religious significance for him.

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