Prisoners
David Saunders-Wilson, 23 November 1989
Life on Death Row: One Man’s Fight against Racism and the Death Penalty
by Merrilyn Thomas.
Piatkus, 160 pp., £12.95, September 1989,0 86188 879 0 Show More
by Merrilyn Thomas.
Piatkus, 160 pp., £12.95, September 1989,
“... Rosie Johnston, white and privileged; Edward Johnson, black and poor. For several months between 1986-1987 they shared the experience of imprisonment. Rosie Johnston was to emerge from HMP East Sutton Park in June 1987, having been sentenced to nine months for the possession of heroin and for supplying it to her friends at Oxford University (including a Cabinet Minister’s daughter ... ”
