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Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system.When Conovers request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he decided to apply for a job as a prison officer. So begins his odyssey at Sing Sing, once a model prison but now the states most troubled maximum-security facility. The result of his year there is this remarkable look at one of Americas most dangerous prisons, where drugs, gang wars, and sex are rampant, and where the line between violator and violated is often unclear. As sobering as it is suspenseful, Newjack is an indispensable contribution to the urgent debate about our countrys criminal justice system, and a consistently fascinating read.

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Acclaim for Ted Conovers NEWJACK Nobody goes to greater lengths to get a - photo 1

Acclaim for Ted Conovers

NEWJACK

Nobody goes to greater lengths to get a story than Ted Conover. Immersing himself in his subject to a degree matched by few journalists working today, he has given us a compelling, compassionate look at a terribly important, poorly understood aspect of American society. My hat is off to him.

Jon Krakauer

Newjack tells the straight skinny on a guards life inside prison without being overly judgmental or cloyingly sentimental. Its experiential journalism at its best.

The Denver Post

Ted Conover is a first-rate reporter and more daring and imaginative than the rest of us combined. This book is one of his finest.

Sebastian Junger

Profoundly eye-opening.

Chicago Sun-Times

A devastating chronicle of the toll prison takes on the prisoners and the keepers of the keys.

Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

This book takes a reader inside one of the many locked doors of Americas penal system. It is clear-eyed and sympathetic, intelligent and engrossing. It reminded me of some of George Orwells admirable journalism.

Tracy Kidder

A fascinating and sobering read.

USA Today

It is hard to know if there has ever been an institution that cost more and achieved less than a prison. And after reading Newjack, that statement seems truer than ever.

Chicago Tribune

An incisive and indelible look at the life of a corrections officer and the dark life of the penal system.

The Dallas Morning News

Endlessly fascinating, often suspenseful.

The Christian Science Monitor

Pretty damned amazing . entirely gripping and powerful.

Sherman Alexie

A fascinating story . Prison books crowd the shelves, but few tell the story from the point of view of the officers who spend eight hours a day doing time, hoping and praying that they make it home that night, hoping and praying that the job allows them to remain human.

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Newjack is a valuable contribution to the urgent debate about crime and punishment in our time.

The Boston Globe

A fascinating window into the complex machinations of Americas prison systems.

The Austin Chronicle

A timely, troubling, important book.

The Baltimore Sun

George Orwell, you have a godson. Upton Sinclair, youve been one-upped. In this mind-blowing example of journalism at its most authentic, Conover discovers that prison can bring out the animal in any man, and even the zookeeper has to protect his soul.

Entertainment Weekly

Ted Conover NEWJACK Ted Conover was raised in Colorado and lives in New York - photo 2
Ted Conover
NEWJACK

Ted Conover was raised in Colorado and lives in New York City. Two of his previous books, White-out and Coyotes, were named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. Further information about Ted Conover is available on his web site at www.tedconover.com.

ALSO BY TED CONOVER

Whiteout: Lost in Aspen

Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of
Americas Illegal Aliens

Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails
with Americas Hoboes

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION JUNE 2001 Copyright 2000 2001 by Ted Conover - photo 3

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, JUNE 2001

Copyright 2000, 2001 by Ted Conover
Map 2001 by Kayley Le Faiver

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover, in different form, in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, in 2000.

Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

A portion of this work has been previously published in The New Yorker, and a portion of the Afterword appeared in slightly different form as Sign It to Perlstein on www.contentville.com.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Elliot Markowitz for permission to reprint Seagulls and Singing in the Shower. Reprinted by permission of Elliot Markowitz.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Random House edition as follows:
Conover, Ted.
Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing / Ted Conover.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-4000-3309-6
1. Sing Sing Prison. 2. Ossining Correctional Facility. 3. PrisonsNew York (State)Ossining. 4. Conover, Ted. 5. Correctional personnelNew York (State)OssiningBiography. 6. PrisonsNew York (State)OssiningOfficials and employeesBiography. I. Title.
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TO MARGOT
sweet muse, sharp-eyed critic,
my girl on the train

Thanks to Kathy R., agent nonpareil; to Dan M., early believer; to Nicky D., Bob R., and Estelle G., good readers, advisers, and secret keepers all; to Robert S., Esq., for advice; to Jerry C., Jody and Jenni K., David S., Katie C., and especially, as ever, thanks, Jay.

AUTHORS NOTE

This is a work of nonfiction, describing events that I witnessed and participated in. No scenes are imaginary or made up, though some dialogue was, of necessity, re-created. Like all officers, I kept a small spiral notebook in my breast pocket for note-taking; unlike most of them, I took many notes. Most of the individuals in the book are identified by their real names. But to protect the privacy of certain officers and inmates, I have made up the following names for real people:

AragonLEsperanceAstacio
AntonelliMichaelsVan Essen
FosterRufinoGaines
ArnoHawkinsPerch
DobbinsWickershamPacheco
BellaChilmarkScarff
McCorkleDuncanSaline
PopishSt. GeorgePitkin
DieterBirchLopez
Di CarloMasseyDe Los Santos
DiPaolaPhelanGarces
SperosPerlsteinRiordan
TurnerBillingsDelacruz
MalaverMendezPerez
FayLarsonAddison
MelmanSimsBlaine
CHAPTER 1 INSIDE PASSAGE S ix-twenty AM and the sun rises over a dark - photo 4
CHAPTER 1

Picture 5

INSIDE PASSAGE

S ix-twenty A.M. and the sun rises over a dark place. Across the Hudson River from Sing Sing prison, on the opposite bank, the hills turn pink; I spot the treeless gap in the ridgeline where, another officer has told me, inmates quarried marble for the first cell-block. Nobody could believe it back in 1826: a work crew of convicts, camping on the riverbank, actually induced to build their own prison. They had been sent down from Auburn, New York States famous second prison, to construct Sing Sing, its third. How would that feel, building your own prison?

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