Resource: Lebanon County Agrees to Change Hair Policy and Pay $147k in Dreadlocks Solitary Confinement Cases

The Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (PILP) is pleased to announce that a settlement agreement has been reached in the case of three Black men placed in solitary confinement at the Lebanon County Correctional Facility for refusing to cut their hair. The men, who were being held at the jail pretrial, were placed in solitary confinement pursuant to a jail policy that prohibited braids, cornrows, and dreadlocks but permitted other forms of long hair. The three men are all Rastafarian and wear their hair in deadlocks in accordance with their religious beliefs.