GRAND RAPIDS (AP) — A judge says Michigan prison food that might not be tasty isn’t enough to carry a lawsuit.
Federal Judge Gordon Quist recently dismissed a lawsuit by a prisoner who says his rights were violated by spoiled ground beef, a bruised orange, cold noodles and warm milk back in 2013.
Christopher Velthuysen says he was sick in 2014 after eating watered-down oatmeal, leftovers and cake without frosting. He sued the company that provides food to prisons.
The judge says “isolated incidents” are insufficient to state a legal claim over prison food.
Velthuysen, 46, is locked up for a second-degree murder conviction in Wayne County.
- Posted January 25, 2017
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Judge dismisses lawsuit over quality of food in Michigan prisons
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