Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District

Author: Ted Conover

Journalist Ted Conover gives a first-hand account of life inside the penal system. When Conover’s 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 state’s most troubled maximum-security facility. The result of his y….Read More

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