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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE)- A Westerly man has filed a federal lawsuit against officials from the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, saying that they are violating his rights to religious freedom by repeatedly disciplining him for wearing a pagan hairstyle. Christopher Banks, 24, is being held at the ACI after admitting to abusing his girlfriend’s three-year-old daughter back in 2018. Banks
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Rhode Island Archives, Page 225 of 437
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Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Medical School
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Former Westerly teacher files lawsuit claiming he was fired for his beliefs
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Former Westerly teacher files lawsuit claiming he was fired for his beliefs