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Feds accuse Texas prison agency of discriminating against employee for wearing a headscarf

A federal lawsuit asserts that the Texas agency terminated a state prison clerk who refused to remove a head covering in line with her Ifa faith.

The Beto Unit prison, operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Tennessee Colony.


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