Alaska Supreme Court reverses decision denying inmate access to kosher diet, prayer shawl

Alaska Dispatch
Alaska Supreme Court reverses decision denying inmate access to kosher diet, prayer shawl
  
In rejecting the requests by convicted double-killer Paul T. Stavenjord, the Alaska Department of Corrections said a kosher diet was not related to the Buddhist faith and that prayer shawls were allowed only at the discretion of the prison superintendent.

Crime & Justice | Laurel Andrews
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One wonders if his shawl request would be denied if he was Jewish.

The right of a Muslim to grow a beard in prison went all the way to SCOTUS.