Al Jazeera: California mulls statewide standards for religious garb in jails
By Brian Osgood, Al Jazeera
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”. Read more here.