Steve Campbell v. James Purkett George Lombardi

Steve Campbell, an inmate at the Farmington Correctional Center (FCC) in Missouri, filed this lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Campbell alleges that the FCC’s grooming regulation for prisoners, which prohibits “long hair,” violates his constitutional right to freely exercise his religious beliefs because as a follower of the Nazarite religion it is forbidden that he should cut his hair. Campbell also argues that the regulation violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution because it does not apply to female prisoners of the Missouri Department of Corrections or…