October 30, 2003
Source: Associated Press
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On October 30, 2003 Associated Press reported that " a Jewish man serving a life sentence in prison for murder won the right to kosher meals in a settlement with the Florida Department of Corrections on Tuesday. Alan J. Cotton, 58, filed a civil lawsuit in September 2002, charging that his Orthodox Jewish dietary requirements were not being met by the Everglades Correctional Institution. "