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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is the storyline of Conover's rookie season as a guard at Sing Sing. It really is a nerve-jangling bank account of his passage into the storied jail and the culture of its guards—both fresh-faced "newjacks" like Conover and brutally hardened veterans. As he struggles to be a good official, Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, works to balance decency with toughness, and participates in jail rituals—remove frisks, cell queries, cell "extractions"—that exact a toll on inmates and officials alike.The story begins with the corrections academy and ends with the flames and smoke cigars 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 consequence, to fame as the citadel of capital consequence, to its present status as NY State's "bottom of the barrel" jail.This audiobook will become a landmark of American journalism—the definitive display of the impasse between the need to imprison thieves and the dehumanization of inmates and guards—that almost undoubtedly occurs behind pubs."Newjack is an astonishing work by a gifted—and dedicated—journalist. Ted Conover needs us into the dangerous, miserable, amusing and instructive heart of 1 of America's most widely known prisons." —Tom Brokaw

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