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Rasta inmates spend 10 years in isolation for hair

By DENA POTTER | China Daily | Updated: 2010-05-10 07:54

Dreadlocks considered a threat by law in Virginia prisons

JARRATT, Virginia - From his treatment, Kendall Gibson would seem to be one of the state of Virginia's most dangerous prisoners.

For more than 10 years he has lived in segregation at the Greensville Correctional Center, spending at least 23 hours every day in a cell the size of a gas station bathroom. In a temporary home for the worst of the worst - inmates too violent or disruptive to live among the rest of society's outcasts - he has been a permanent fixture.

Rasta inmates spend 10 years in isolation for hair

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