Discriminatory treatment to African-American Muslim inmates in a Californian correctional facility was deemed lawful under the laws and Constitution of the State of California. The Californian Supreme Court, while taking note of the correctional officials' acknowledgement of discriminatory treatment by refusing to grant Muslim inmates the same privileges to worship, nevertheless deemed this lawful and not violative of petitioners' freedom of religion, as the requests by Muslim inmates were found to be assertive in nature and against the well-functioning of the correctional institution.