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Newjack - A Year as a Prison Guard in New York's Most Infamous Maximum Security Jail (Paperback)
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Newjack - A Year as a Prison Guard in New York's Most Infamous Maximum Security Jail (Paperback)
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After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's
most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied
to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or 'newjack',
Conover spent a year in the unpredictable, intimidating and often
violent world of America's penal system. Unarmed and outnumbered,
prison officers at one of America's toughest maximum security jails
supervise 1,800 inmates, most of whom have been convicted of
violent felonies: murder, manslaughter, rape. Prisoners conceal
makeshift weapons to settle gang rivalries or old grudges, and
officers are often attacked or caught in the crossfire. When
violence flares up in the galleries or yard an officer's day can go
from mundane to terrifying in a heartbeat. Conover is an acclaimed
journalist, known for immersing himself completely in a situation
in order to write about it. With remarkable insight, Newjack takes
the reader as close to experiencing life in an American prison as
any of us would ever want to get. It's a thrillingly told account
of how the gruelling world of the prison system brutalizes all who
enter it - prison guards and prisoners alike.
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