Kendall Gibson has spent 23 hours a day locked in a cell no bigger than a gas station bathroom. He is allowed to come out three times a week for a 20 minute shower, and five times a week he gets an hour of recreation. Still, the inmate chooses to remain isolated, because he believes cutting his hair would be a sin against his Rastafarian god, Jah.
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Although Gibson does not seem as menacing as the other inmates whose crimes merit isolation, he has been denied parole 12 times for the same reason -- the serious nature of his crime -- but he knows his refusal to bow to the grooming policy likely played a role in that.
