Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing. It is a nerve-jangling account of his passage into the storied prison and the culture of its guards--both fresh-faced newjacks like Conover and brutally hardened veterans. As he struggles to be a good officer, Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, works to balance decency with toughness, and participates in prison rituals--strip frisks, cell searches, cell extractions--that exact a toll on inmates and officers alike.

The tale begins with the corrections academy and ends with the flames and smoke of New Year's Eve on Conover's floor of the notorious B-Block. Along the way, Conover also recounts the history of Sing Sing, from draconian early punishment, to fame as the citadel of capital punishment, to its present status as New York State's bottom of the barrel prison.

This audiobook will become a landmark of American journalism--the definitive presentation of the impasse between the need to imprison criminals and the dehumanization of inmates and guards--that almost inevitably takes place behind bars.

Newjack is an astonishing work by a gifted--and dedicated--journalist. Ted Conover takes us into the dangerous, sad, amusing and instructive soul of one of America's best known prisons. --Tom Brokaw

Ted Conover is the author of several books including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) and Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and National Geographic. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780375501777
ISBN 10	0375501770
Title	Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Author	Ted Conover
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2000-05-02
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award (General Nonfiction) 2000
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