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Iowa Must Give Kosher Meals to Civilly Committed Sex Offender
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2005
by John E Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2005, page 40
Iowa Must Give Kosher Meals To Civilly Committed Sex Offender
Filed under:
Settlements,
Injunctions,
RLUIPA,
Civil Commitment,
Religious Freedom,
Religious Diet.
Location:
Washington.
by John E. Dannenberg
The United States District Court (S.D. Iowa) ordered that Kosher meals be provided without co-payment to an Orthodox Jewish prisoner who is committed to the Civil Commitment Unit for Sexual Offenders of the Iowa Department of …
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