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Michigan Prisons Ordered to Provide Jewish Prisoners Meat and Dairy on Sabbath and Holidays; Sixth Circuit Affirms

Loaded on March 1, 2022 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News March, 2022, page 34
Filed under: Religious Diet, Sabbaths, Religious Freedom/Worship. Location: Michigan.

by David M. Reutter

On October 12, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court’s judgment in favor of Michigan prisoners who sought a kosher meal with meat and dairy on the Jewish Sabbath and four important Jewish holidays, as well as cheesecake on ...

 

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