Ft. Lauderdale, FL – The Broward Sheriff’s Office’s 252-page budget proposal is chock-full of statistics and predictions for the upcoming year, including this surprising one: a major drop in the need for kosher meals at the jail.
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BSO anticipates serving 420 kosher meals per day for the next fiscal year — less than half the 898 budgeted for this year. During the 2008/09 year, 900 kosher meals were served daily.
The jails’ most famous requester of kosher meals from the past year: Ex-Hollywood City Commissioner Keith Wasserstrom received kosher meals during his roughly six-week stay in the jail after being convicted in a conflict of interest case.
Overall, BSO projects a drop in the jail population from an average of 62,280 a month this year to 58,200 next year — and a drop by nearly 4,000 in general population meals served per day.
BSO’s Jim Leljedal said kosher meals cost more. “If you identify yourself as kosher you get them,” he said. “That was one of the economies we were looking at was to cut back on unnecessary special meals.”
At a minimum they should make the prisoners pay for any special meals. Our taxes are too high already. If an ehrlich yid does the crime he shold pay out of his own pocket.
Give everyone vegan meals. Problem solved.
You know what a Chillul Hashem it is for an Orthodox Jew to commit a crime, and then to demand not only kosher food, but with the highest level of kashrus observance? This is outragous. The cost of “bassar kashar” which is absolutely kosher is much, much less than “Glatt”, give them all Hebrew National or Shofar brand meat. If they’re righteous enough to keep the level of glatt, they wouldn’t be in prison.
I think we need to get Aish involved . Need some gook Kiruv there then we will need more kosher meals and not eat trief.
moishe rabeini said ochein noda haduvor . rashi. sheyesh dultirin beyisroel
Of course the demand for kosher food is down they killed the Kadosh Grossman so he does not his kosher meals.
I don’t get it – why do jails need to provide food? The prisoners should supply their own. What ever happened to “lunch boxes” where the wife would prepare a healthy lunch for the husband to take along to work? To expect the Prison System to “cater” to the criminals is nothing short of ridiculous!
Wouldn’t it be funny if people stopped doing their illegal mishagasin because if they get caught they wouldnt get Kosher food in prison. Sounds a little backwards but maybe that’s what these twisted individuals really need. People are so warped these days who knows…..
And while Xtians and moslems are in the prisons “ministering” to and converting convicts, some of whom genuinely turn their lives around, all you pious “Jews” want to push your brethren further away from their religion. Wonderful! Makes me so proud to be one of you. We should have Chabad shlichim in every prison on a regular basis teaching fellow Jews who never learned the true Torah way of life, and bringing them back to the family. We don’t and then we scream that “missionaries” are stealing our children’s souls. Shame!
Give them all veggies to eat. Half these guys only use kosher as a ROUSE, to create, and foment discord, and create problems within the system.
Kosher is not a luxury item for any Jew – it’s a commandment for all Jews. So – most of the discussion here is – well – irrelevant. You can bet your tzitzis that every Muslim who demands Halal food gets it. And yes – it’s a chillul Hashem for a shomer Shabbos Jew to be in jail for a committed crime. And yes – I’m aware of great Tzaddikim who were handed over to the authorities for being “different”. And yes – I’m aware of those in the Shoah who were moser nefesh to avoid treif, even though in such conditions it was muttar for survival. We should all chill out and look inward to remain in a state of constant teshuva. The growing number of frum Jews in jail signals that we as a community are sick and in need of Hashgacha Elyona.