(Alaska Public Media) A national Muslim civil liberties group has resolved its federal lawsuit against the State of Alaska for providing what it says were insufficient meals to Muslim inmates fasting as part of their faith.
Muslims abstain from food and drink during daylight hours during the month-long Ramadan holiday.
“So when they are in prison, that means that the Department of Corrections needs to provide them with meals after the sun goes down and before dawn,” said Carolyn Homer, a trial attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The organization sued the state last year, alleging two inmates had to skip meals, lost weight and that guards punished them and confiscated any food they’d smuggled out of the dining hall to eat after sundown.
