Maryland state prisons will allow Jewish inmates to keep kosher during Passover, a prison spokesman said. The department will offer “an extended menu” to the approximately 140 Jewish prisoners in the state’s correctional facilities. Two inmates have recently brought lawsuits against the state over kosher meals and other issues surrounding religious observance. One case went before the U.S. Court of Appeals on Wednesday, and the other is scheduled to go to trial in November. Rick Binetti, a spokesman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, declined to say whether the state was providing a similar special menu to Catholic inmates during Lent.
