Indiana – The state of Indiana has decided its Jewish prisoners can keep kosher with help from the correctional system’s kitchen.
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On Monday, the state of Indiana dismissed the appeal of a lower court’s decision to require prisons to find cheap kosher food to feed observant Jewish inmates. The Indiana Department of Corrections already provides vegan and halal meals at a prisoner’s request. The Hoosiers concluded that kosher should be no different.
Dan Elbaum, director of Chicago’s American Jewish Committee’s group had filed an amicus brief to the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Maston Willis v. Commission, Indiana Department of Corrections in support of an Orthodox Jewish inmate who has been denied kosher food. The landmark Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act requires states to accommodate reasonable religious requests from prison inmates.
where is #1 ’s comment?? I want to see why everyone is agaimst him!!!
I would like to know what the status is, vis-a-vis providing Kosher food for prisoners in all of the 50 states, and territories?
My parents work with Jewish prisoners in Indiana, and have seen the difficulty they have first hand. Many of them admit that they made mistakes and bad choices, but are working to change themselves. Others continue along the same path on the inside that they followed on the outside. Some are learning real Judaism for the first time in their lives. Some are not even really Jewish, but are looking for more privileges. Even so, allowing kosher food is simply humane.