Associated PRESSA Connecticut inmates awaiting execution for his role in the murder of a woman and her two daughters during a violent burglary, said he refuses prison food, which he believes is not kosher to eat.
Steven Hayes sued the Department of Correction in August, alleging that it would not serve kosher food. He filed an amended complaint on November 7, which was released on Wednesday, detailing what he described as “extreme weight loss.”
Hayes and another man, Joshua Komisarjevsky was sentenced to death for the murder of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, aged 17 and 11 years old Hayley Michaela, at the family home in Cheshire. The victims were tied up, two of them have been sexually abused and their bodies were found after the house was burned. The husband of the Hawke-Petit, Dr. William Petit was severely beaten but survived.
Hayes described the trial as an Orthodox Jew and says he has a kosher diet since May 2013. He says he suffered Request “almost two years of emotional wounds are hungry between God and follows or the choice of sin, in order to survive select “.
In its amended handwritten complaint, Hayes said he has eaten since August 24 of each kosher food and now weighs less than 120 pounds documents from the prison of the state show the 5-foot-7 Hayes weighed 170 pounds in year of 2007.
Karen Martucci, a spokesman for the Prison Service said Hayes denied prison officials there. On a hunger strike She said she could not comment on the lawsuit but said inmates are offered, which “. Meet all nutritional needs and space for religious dietary restrictions recognized” as “tariff common “meals, well known religious themes
Hayes makes kosher food is brought in prison while preparing for the use of pots, pans, food preparation surfaces and utensils that are used to cook kosher foods contaminated by.
He said the department does not have an “orthodox reliable confirmation that” guarantees “to ensure that the food and the process is kosher.” He writes that his religion requires “strict compliance, not close enough.”
Hayes also claims to have been other forms of religious discrimination in jail and was placed on a suicide of a clock to fast during the holiday of Yom Kippur last year.
This is not his first action against the Ministry. In the latter case, none of which were successful, Hayes complained of his mental health, harassment by prison staff and the temperature in the cell.