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| Inmate Files Suit Over Kosher Meals |
| By billingsgazette.com |
| Published: 02/01/2011 |
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A Montana Women's Prison inmate is suing state corrections officials, claiming they are not providing her kosher foods in violation of her right to religious freedom. In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Billings, Shelley Tischler, an inmate, said she is Jewish and practices her faith by eating kosher meals. Prison officials, she alleges, are denying her kosher food along with subjecting her to slurs about her Jewish faith from staff and inmates. The suit names as defendants the Montana Department of Corrections; the Montana Women's Prison; Jo Acton, warden; Bob Paul and Sue Orand, deputy wardens; and three others. Tischler, 57, was sentenced in 2005 to 20 years in prison for negligent homicide and criminal endangerment in Ravalli County, records said. Tischler has spent most of her time at the women's prison in Billings but also has been treated at the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs. She is currently at Warm Springs. Read More. |
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