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Article: Winston Moore, county jail warden 1st African American to run a U.S. prison took over in 1968
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 22, 2002
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Warden Winston E. Moore found a quick solution to gang graffiti
scrawled on the walls of Cook County Jail.
He handed a paintbrush to Black P Stone Nation gang leader Jeff
Fort and said, "Clean it up."
Word got around, and the graffiti stopped.
Mr. Moore, who ran Cook County Jail for a tumultuous nine years in
the 1960s and '70s and was the first African-American prison warden
in the United States, died Sept. 18 of heart failure at his home in
Banning, Calif. He was 73.
Trained as a psychologist, Mr. Moore was named warden of Cook
County Jail in 1968 by Sheriff Joseph Woods and reformed the
notorious "barn boss system," in which authorities had allowed
certain inmates to assume control of ...