Sikh Activists Upset Over Inmate's Haircut

But United Sikhs didn't hear about Ahuja's case until three weeks after his hair had been removed. His mother, who lives in the United Kingdom, contacted the group after getting a letter from her son saying that he was depressed and didn't recognize himself in the mirror.

Skihs protest the haircut given to Florida inmate Jagmahon Ahuja, also a Sikh.

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Datta noted that Ahuja had been imprisoned in Jacksonville in 2006 and his hair was not cut then because of the short duration of his stay in the jail.

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Datta said there are about 500,000 Sikhs living in the United States. He estimated there are fewer than two dozen Sikhs imprisoned across the country. Worldwide, Sikhs number about 25 million, Singh said, with the biggest population in India, followed by the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.