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Subject: You Deserve a Break Today

San Francisco (UPI) — In what legal observers are already calling a landmark decision in the case of Jackson v. California, the California Supreme Court has recognized for the first time a constitutional right to chicken done right.

The high court held that under the the due process clause and the constitutional prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, Joseph Jackson, a prisoner at the California Men’s Correctional Institue at Camarillo, is entitled to food «of fair average quality,» or «comparable to the fare at a modest restaurant or fast-food chain.»

Mr. Jackson had complained of the poor quality of the prison kitchen’s Coq au Vin….



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