A Tiverton man serving a life sentence at the state Adult Correctional Institutions is suing corrections administrators over their refusal to allow him to wear an Apache headband in keeping with the ...

A judge ruled April 30 that a Rhode Island prison could not stop a Native American inmate from wearing a religious headband, according to court documents. Screengrab from the complaint A prison that ...

The Rhode Island Department of Corrections settled a lawsuit with a man who was denied the right to wear a Native American headband. Wolf Pawochawog-Mequinosh claimed the denial violated his religious ...

Lawyers for a RWU Law clinic and the ACLU have filed a federal lawsuit claiming the R.I. Department of Corrections is violating a prisoner’s religious freedom rights PROVIDENCE — A federal lawsuit ...

Wolf Pawochawog-Mequinosh filed a federal lawsuit last year alleging his religious rights were violated by the state Department of Corrections PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Corrections ...

A prison that denied an Indigenous inmate’s request to wear a religious headband four times will now have to let him wear it and update its policies regarding similar requests, a Rhode Island judge ...