Arkansas prison system inmates can now grow a beard -- without length limitations -- if their religion dictates it. The new administrative directive, signed Thursday by Arkansas Department of ...

Beard policies may vary from one state prison ... Persons Act] is to require accommodation of religion — to allow an inmate an exception to an otherwise uniform policy that substantially burdens ...

See Beard, 2022 WL 3159277 ... the panel held that—even though prison inmates have a lower expectation of privacy than other individuals—the forcible removal of the plaintiff's clothing ...