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Courts to decide if forced removal of religious headwear for mug shots violates religious rights
Updated Feb 22, 2021;
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Four women convicted of murder say in a federal lawsuit that Michigan prison officials violated their rights when they forced them to remove religious headwear for mug shots.
The lawsuit is seeking class-action status on behalf of all prisoners, requesting a judge strike down the Michigan Department of Corrections policy that requires religious headwear to be removed for identification photos that are publicly available on the state’s offender tracking website.
The question of whether government officials in prisons, police booking rooms or ID issuance offices can legally require the removal of religious headwear, including headscarves or turbans, has spurred lawsuits across the nation, including others pending in Detroit and Flint.
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Michigan prison to treat entire inmate population for scabies
DETROIT The entire prison population at Parnall Correctional Facility in Jackson will be treated for scabies after the Michigan Department of Corrections declared a facility-wide outbreak this week, a spokesman said.
Prison officials have ordered medication and plan to treat the 1,286 men housed at Parnall by early next week, department spokesman Chris Gautz said Friday.
Gautz said a scabies outbreak was declared for one housing unit on Jan. 22 after several suspected cases were identified. Scabies had spread to at least three more housing units by Thursday, when the department’s chief medical officer determined that the entire prison should be placed on outbreak status, he said.