MATTER OF BUNNY v. COUGHLIN


187 A.D.2d 119 (1993)

In the Matter of Jah Bunny, Also Known as Cleveland Guy, Appellant, v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III, as Commissioner of The New York State Department of Correctional Services, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

February 4, 1993


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Selcov, Poughkeepsie, for appellant.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General, Albany (Leslie B. Neustadt of counsel), for respondent.

MIKOLL, J. P., CASEY and HARVEY, JJ., concur; LEVINE and MAHONEY, JJ., concur in part and dissent in part in a separate opinion by LEVINE, J.


Per Curiam.

Petitioner, a follower of the Rastafari religion, is presently serving a criminal sentence at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Washington County. Rastafarian observance requires male members of the sect to leave their hair uncombed and uncut, resulting in the formation of rope-like hairstrands (dreadlocks), which must be covered in public by knit headgear (hereinafter crowns). Rastafarians also adhere to...

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