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Alfre Woodard

In your new movie Clemency, you play a prison warden in a facility with death-row inmates. What did you do to prepare? My filmmaker, Chinonye Chukwu, took me on a tour of prisons in Ohio, and I met with three female wardens and a deputy warden.

They all came to their positions from the mental-health professions, or social services, or public health.

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