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GARTRELL v. ASHCROFT

No. Civ.A.01-01895(HHK).

191 F.Supp.2d 23 (2002)

Isadore GARTRELL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. John D. ASHCROFT, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

February 19, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Desmond Hogan, Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Isadore Gartrell, Antoine Gross, Darnell Stanley, Carl Wolfe.

Daria Jean Zane, Michael A. Humphreys, U.S. Attorney's Office, Washington, DC, for John D. Ashcroft, Kathleen Hawk-Sawyer.

Michael A. Humphreys, U.S. Attorney's Office, Washington, DC, for Bureau of Prisons.

MEMORANDUM

KENNEDY, District Judge.

Plaintiffs represent a class of prisoners from the District of Columbia whose avowed religious beliefs forbid them from cutting their hair or shaving their beards. They are in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons ("BOP") and are housed in prison facilities run by the Virginia Department of Corrections ("VDOC"). Plaintiffs allege that BOP's decision to house them in VDOC prisons rather than in BOP prisons violates...

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