(Bridgewater Courier News) A Muslim inmate is suing Somerset County Jail, claiming he’s been discriminated against when employees attempted to offer him kosher meals in place of halal.
Sherone Long, who filed a federal lawsuit in August, is alleging the jail does not offer adequate Islamic services, despite its handbook stating it does.
According to Long’s statement of facts in the lawsuit’s filing papers, in May 2018 he reached out to Deputy Warden Roger Delin concerning the lack of Islamic services.
Long explained to Delin that he had never been afforded the opportunity to pray with an imam, as the jail’s handbook states, and he was not given halal meals.
