Florida has no plans to stop offering kosher meals to prisoners, but corrections officials don’t want a federal judge telling them they have to keep serving up the special diet, which consists largely of sardines and peanut butter. A federal appeals court will hear arguments Tuesday in a drawn-out challenge over the kosher meals. The state has spent nearly $500,000 in the lawsuit, filed by the U.S. Department of Justice nearly four years ago, but legal wrangling over the religious meals has lasted more than a decade. U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz last year ordered the Florida Department of Corrections to offer kosher meals and barred the agency from removing inmates from the religious...
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