Colorado - Prisoner Files Suit Over Lack Of Kosher Diet

Denver, CO. - An Orthodox Jewish prison inmate who lost 30 pounds while subsisting on peanut butter and crackers after he was barred from eating kosher food sued the Colorado Department of Corrections in federal court.

He claims that the prison refused to let him have kosher food for a year as punishment for allegedly violating dining hall rules by putting pats of butter and packets of salad dressing in his pockets.