California mulls statewide standards for religious garb in jails

Los Angeles, California, the US – Sajad Shakoor faced a painful choice while incarcerated at California’s Pleasant Valley State Prison in 2002: remove his chitrali cap — a core part of his identity as a Muslim of Pakistani heritage — or end up in a solitary confinement cell known informally as “the hole”.

In this Al Jazeera article by Brian Osgood, both Shaykh Rami Nsour and former student Shakoor were interviewed on the CDCR policy on Religious Garb, and SB309.

You can read the full article here.