You have to keep quiet. You have to be so humble and stupid to survive as a black person in prison, and that's just not me. That's not my personality. I wasn't going to pretend to be something I wasn't. It's the officers rather than the inmates who are racist.
Black officers are few and far between.
In Holloway there are more because it's in London, but the sad thing is that because they're in the minority they don't speak out against the racism. In fact, I've found they are more prejudiced against the black people. Racism is institutionalised. You can't complain to the officer that's being horrible to someone. She'll just make your life hell.