Ebook {Epub PDF} 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.  · In the early s anthropologist and journalist Ted Conover applied for access to visit Sing Sing maximum security prison in order to write about it and was turned down. Undeterred, Conover at once applied to become a Corrections Officer as a loophole to gain access, and in he finally got his chance to be a Newjack (a trainee CO).4/5.  · The book, NewJack: Guarding Sing Sing is the chronicle of Conover's year (he dedicated an entire year to experience the fulness of the prison experience) as a CO at the institution. The contents of the book are, in many ways, not surprising.

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback) Ted Conover. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, United States () ISBN ISBN New Paperback Quantity: Seller: Book Depository hard to find. (London, United Kingdom) Rating. Title: Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Author: Ted Conover Genre: Literary Journalism Year: Acquired: Bought Rating: Two Sentence Summary: Ted Conover wanted to write about being a correctional officer, but the New York State Department of Corrections wouldn't let him shadow a guard for a story. So Conover became an officer for a year and was assigned to guard at Sing Sing. 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.

Challenging that kind of reflexive viciousness is one of the motives behind Ted Conover's troubling new book, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (New York: Random House ; $). Unable to get official permission to interview and write about corrections officers, Conover "got in" by applying for a corrections officer post. In the early s anthropologist and journalist Ted Conover applied for access to visit Sing Sing maximum security prison in order to write about it and was turned down. Undeterred, Conover at once applied to become a Corrections Officer as a loophole to gain access, and in he finally got his chance to be a Newjack (a trainee CO). Guarding Sing Sing. “Take your shirt off, please. Show me your hands, both sides. Now arms away from your body. Turn around.”. “O.K.”. We nod that we’re finished and move on to the next cell. The inmate there has heard us coming and wants to know why. “Just do it, please.”.