A transgender prisoner, serving a a 55-year sentence for strangling his 11-month-old stepdaughter to death, is suing a prison chaplain for allegedly banning them from wearing a hijab.
Jonathan Richardson, who also goes by Autumn Cordellionè, has filed a civil lawsuit against the chaplain of Branchville Correctional Facility in Indiana after he allegedly stopped the inmate from wearing a hijab outside of his cell, despite identifying as a Muslim woman.
Richardson is seeking $150,000 in damages and the ability to wear the hijab ‘anywhere I go within the facility.’
