A prison inmate’s right to practice his Yoruba-Santeria faith was not violated when he was ordered to wear a collared shirt to hide a beaded necklace worn by adherents of the religion, a state appeals court has determined. Ayinde Fair argued that he was harassed by a guard who stopped him in 2009 inside Eastern Correctional Facility in Napanoch, Ulster County, and ordered him to hide the beads, called “elekes.”
Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Directive No. 4202 allows inmates to “possess and wear” with a permit “religious beads…for use in the practice of an inmate’s documented religion.” But the rule adds that the beads “may be worn only underneath clothing so they are not visible.”
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