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BOP Ordered to Provide Kosher Diet

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Religious Freedom, Religious Diet. Location: Pennsylvania.

A federal district court in Pennsylvania issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) requiring the federal Bureau of Prisons to provide a Hassidic Jewish prisoner with a kosher meal during Passover. The court found the BOP's attempt at providing kosher meals deficient and ordered that the prisoner be provided with a ...

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