Question: What kind of a problem did you have coming in as a black warden in a largely white correctional staff? Johnson: Everybody seems to think that's a big problem, but really I haven't seen any big problem... I'm interested in what's happened to prisons because of the influx of blacks, young blacks. In many ways the American prison system has become a system which imprisons black people at a time when race consciousness is very high in the country, and that's very special.
Description:Three companion articles to "The Drive for Inmate's Rights." The articles are Q & A format pieces on prison mistreatment, racism, and pride-building.
Rights: Washington Post; noticed on page with Shame of Prisons series
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