On a hot summer day in 1994, Alyssa Haskins decided she had had enough. She stood in front of her bathroom mirror, lifted a pair of scissors to her head, and just like that, cut off all her hair.

According to KVVU, the prison has a ban on several types of hairstyles including dreadlocks, weaves and hair that is “disproportionately longer in one area than another,” with the exception of ...

Shana Nsiangngo, a manager at the Jabula Hair Salon in the Golden Acre, said that weaves and dreadlocks had become very popular in Cape Town.