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Oklahoma Orthodox Jewish Prisoners Win Kosher Diet
Loaded on April 15, 2007
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2007, page 38
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Injunctions (PLRA),
Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's,
Religious Freedom,
Religious Diet.
Location:
Oklahoma.
Three Orthodox Jewish state prisoners won both preliminary and permanent injunctive relief requiring the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) to provide them a Kosher diet at no personal cost.
Prisoners Dennis Fulbright, Jon Cottriel and Jerry Harmon brought individual 42 U.S.C. § 1983 actions in 2003 ...
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