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Right to Religious Diet Clearly Established
Loaded on April 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1993, page 4
Warren Bass is a Jewish New York state prisoner. Despite the recommendation of the prison rabbi that Bass was sincere in his religious beliefs and should receive a kosher diet, prison officials refused to provide Bass with a kosher diet. Bass filed suit under § 1983 claiming the denial of …
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