Still Another Jail Lawsuit Over Food

[Beau Ouiville]

Must be something in the air this spring!

"Alleged Racist Wins Right To Kosher Meals

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ST. LOUIS (CN) - An inmate who prison officials said is linked to white supremacist groups has won a federal lawsuit seeking kosher meals because he says he is Jewish.
Norman Lee Toler, serving 10 years in the Northeast Correctional Center in Bowling Green, Mo., for statutory rape, claimed Missouri violated his civil rights by not accommodating his religion.
Prison officials said Toler was caught with white supremacist literature and pictures of Adolf Hitler while jailed in Illinois for robbery and that he got a jailhouse tattoo of the Nazi S.S.
Judge Jean C. Hamilton ruled in Toler's favor and gave the parties until June to negotiate a reasonable option.
"Defendants did not determine how much it would cost either to create a kosher kitchen, or to provide Toler with pre-packaged kosher meals," Hamilton wrote. "Nor did they determine whether they could provide Toler with kosher food from the prison canteen."
Prison officials argued that providing such meals would be costly and unsafe. Brian Hauswirth, a Corrections Department spokesman, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Toler would not be getting kosher food right away. "We will respond," he said, "but we are still considering our options."

http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/04/28/Alleged_Racist_Wins_Right_To_Kosher_Meals.htm
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[cr422]

No problem. Raw fruits and vegetables are always kosher and so are bread and hard-boiled eggs.

True that not all Jews believe bread is always kosher, so if he doesn't accept that, he can skip the bread.

Problem solved.

(Let's make sure he's circumcised. If not he'll need to have it done right away.)

[salukipv1]

most prisons if not all have a kosher option from what I heard. If not all, most so this surprises me that its an issue at all. maybe this is alocal county jail?

I know they say the kosher meal is healthier/higher quality than the standard meals, many guys choose the kosher option for this reason, not because theyre jewish etc....