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Kosher Meals

The Eighth Circuit upheld a ruling in favor of Iowa Department of Corrections and Iowa State Penitentiary officials on an inmate’s claims they violated his First Amendment right to freely exercise his Hebrew Israelite religion by refusing to supply him with kosher meals during Passover and Sukkot while he was being held in an administrative segregation unit.

ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit upheld a ruling in favor of Iowa Department of Corrections and Iowa State Penitentiary officials on an inmate’s claims they violated his First Amendment right to freely exercise his Hebrew Israelite religion by refusing to supply him with kosher meals during Passover and Sukkot while he was being held in an administrative segregation unit. 

Categories / Appeals, Civil Rights, Religion

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