Jewish Inmate Files Suit Over Rules on Shaving

An Orthodox Jew imprisoned in the Toledo Correctional Institution prison, and is serving a life sentence for murder, accused the state of interfering with his religious practices by forcing him to shave his beard and sideburns. He filed a lawsuit yesterday against state officials in U.S. District Court in Toledo.
Because when he arrived at the Toledo prison, he was told that he had to cut his beard and sideburns because departmental policy prohibits beards longer than one-half inch on inmates.