Court Opinion

ID: 9423633
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:08:32.443914+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:44.956722
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Black, Mr. Justice Harlan, and Mr. Justice Stewart,
concurring.
In joining the opinion of the Court, we wish to make explicit something that is left to be gathered only by implication from the Court’s opinion. This is that prison authorities have the right, acting in good faith and in particularized circumstances, to take into account racial tensions in maintaining security, discipline, and good order in prisons and jails. We are unwilling to assume that state or local prison authorities might mistakenly regard such an explicit pronouncement as evincing any dilution of this Court’s firm commitment to the Fourteenth Amendment’s prohibition of racial discrimination.