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(Epub Download) Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing EBook

(Epub Download) Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing EBook
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Newjack: Guarding
Sing Sing EBook
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National Book Critics Circle, Nonfiction, 2001 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 book 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.