Massachusetts Agrees That Non-Jewish Prisoner Gets Kosher Diet

Yesterday, the U.S. 1st Circuit court of Appeals dismissed as moot the case of Guzzi v. Thompson, (1st Cir., May 14, 2008). A release by the Becket Fund explains that the dismissal comes after Massachusetts prison authorities agreed to allow a prisoner who requested kosher food for religious reasons to have access to it even though the prisoner is not Jewish. The Becket Fund had argued to the 1st Circuit that "governments should not be deciding whether a religious belief is orthodox."