In response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado the Department of Corrections (DOC) has agreed to resume providing kosher meals to Timothy Sheline, a Jewish prisoner whose kosher diet was revoked for one year as punishment for allegedly violating a minor dining hall rule.

The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of Sheline on October 11, charging that officials unjustifiably revoked his kosher diet because a guard in the dining hall reported that Sheline was caught taking two packages of butter and two packages of salad dressing from his food tray and putting them in his pocket.

Read more about the prisoner whose kosher diet was revoked at http://www.aclu.org/Prisons/Prisons.cfm?ID=19253&c=127.