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Idaho DOC Agrees to Provide Kosher Meals, Pay $93,000 Settlement
Loaded on April 2, 2018
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2018, page 48
Filed under:
Religious Diet.
Location:
Idaho.
In August 2017, the Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) agreed to provide kosher meals in state prisons to partially settle a lawsuit brought by four Jewish prisoners represented by the ACLU of Idaho.
While the IDOC’s internal “Handbook for Religious Beliefs and Practices” states that prisoners will receive a kosher ...
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