Milton, FL - After his first request was rejected, a Jewish
inmate has sent a second request to the Florida Department of Corrections
asking that he be allowed to be circumcised by a mohel in the prison’s
infirmary.
The SUN-SENTINAL Reports that a
Miami organization, Brit Yosef Yitchak, who claims to have performed 50,000
circumcisions world-wide, has offered to perform the ritual free-of-charge for
Pablo Maniel Diaz, 37, a Cuban-born Jewish inmate at the Blackwater
Correctional Facility if permission is granted.
Diaz is represented by law students Paul Harold and Courtney
Quiros through Stanford University Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic in
California.
Harold and Quiros have given the DOC until mid-June to
respond to their client’s request.
Florida’s DOC recently lost a federal court appeal brought
about by a Jewish inmate who claimed the DOC refused to provide kosher meals
for religious reasons.
The United States Department of Justice is also currently
suing the Florida DOC over the same issue.
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