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Preliminary Injunction Granted to Illinois Prisoner to Receive Non-Allergenic Kosher Meals

Loaded on May 1, 2022 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News May, 2022, page 57
Filed under: Food, Religious Diet. Location: Illinois.

by David M. Reutter

An Illinois federal district court issued a preliminary injunction in favor of a state prisoner on October 12, 2021, requiring prison officials to provide him fresh or frozen kosher meal entrées because he suffers an allergic reaction to those provided, which are “shelf-stable.”

The prisoner, Mark ...

 

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