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Hardcover: 9780375501777, 1 edition (Random House Inc, May 1, 2000), cover price $24.95
Paperback: 9780375726620, Vintage Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $15.00
Miscellaneous: 9781596006317, Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, April 25, 2005), cover price $24.95
Cassette/Spoken Word: 9781567407389, Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, May 1, 2000), cover price $73.25; 9781567403718, Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 2000), cover price $35.95; and 9781567409130, Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 2000), cover price $24.95
Prebinding: 9781439559857, Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 8, 2008), cover price $23.95; and 9781417626083, Bt Bound, June 12, 2001, cover price $25.75
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its guards--both idealistic 'new jacks' like himself and brutally hardened veterans, prison rituals like strip frisks and cell searches, and the impasse between the need to imprison criminals and the dehumanization of both guards and inmates that almost inevitably takes place behind bars. By the author of Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens. Simultaneous.
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Product Description: 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.
"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
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