Without going into it in detail or designing the menu, I respectfully disagree with Marci that compliance with dietary religious requirements is all that burdensome. Providing a vegetarian option along with a non-pork option plus sides of fruit and vegetables plus kosher, if legitimately demanded, would often be enough. Not all dietary habits are religiously required -- including almost all dietary limits for most hindus (no beef; vegetarian option) and buddhists (highly individualized -- most eat anything given them in monasteries around the world -- with exceptions, of course. I would expect some rule of reason in these cases. And I would bet that most prison populations do not have ALL of the multiple permutations possible -- and if a population is like that, the prison is probably large enough that the burden becomes smaller. I don't think we can draw the line on this listserv, but I also do not think that in most cases, indeed nearly all cases, it will be very difficult. Slightly more costly, perhaps, but not all that difficult or costly. Steve On Jun 1, 2005, at 4:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-- Prof. Steven D. Jamar vox: 202-806-8017 Howard University School of Law fax: 202-806-8567 2900 Van Ness Street NW mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC 20008 http://www.law.howard.edu/faculty/pages/jamar/ "If we are to receive full service from government, the universities must give us trained [people]. That means a constant reorientation of university instruction and research not for the mere purpose of increasing technical proficiency but for the purpose of keeping abreast with social and economic change. . . . Government is no better than its [people]." William O. Douglas |
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