POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Homer Reed, an inmate in an Indiana state prison, has sued the prison's officials, charging that they infringed his religious liberty and deprived him of the equal protection of the laws by enforcing against him a prison regulation that forbids male inmates to wear their hair so long that it touches the collar. The defendants on one occasion forced Reed to cut several inches off his shoulder-length "dreadlocks" ("long, ropy, matted, woolly strands...
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