Herman Jackson, Jr. v. James B. Godwin, Etc.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Herman Jackson is a twenty-seven year-old Negro who has been a prisoner for over seven years at the Florida State Prison under sentence of death for the crime of rape. Petitioner is lodged in the prison’s maximum security area, the East Unit, which has a population of, about 1,100 or one-third of the prison’s population. Approximately one-half of the population of the East Unit and of the prison as a whole is Negro. Jackson resides in Death Row, in a cell block with some seventeen others similarly condemned to death, all confined in single solitary cells. Each…