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Ted Conover - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
 
   

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66 out of 66 people found this review helpful.

Newjack - Prison guard tells all about Sing Sing.

Date of Review:  Mar 8, 2003
The Bottom Line: Newjack is a complex story told by an academic style writer. It's rock solid, but it lacks a little something.
Review: Ted Conover wanted to follow a new recruit from training at the NY Corrections Officer Academy into the prisons as a "newjack" which is what the prisoners call the new correctional officers on the block. When he was turned down on that idea, he...
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  4.0

by: CyndiA
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Detailed with back up. Examples...
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Lacks "heart" on some level.
 
48 out of 48 people found this review helpful.

A Guard's-Eye View

Date of Review:  Aug 17, 2001
The Bottom Line: Newjack provides a very interesting look at guards and prisons from a conscious and articulate participant/observer.
Review: What's it like to be a corrections officer? I never really thought about working as a guard (or, for that matter, that I would be reading a book about what it would be like to be a guard). Ted Conover presents a view from the inside in his book...
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  4.0

by: mjfrombuffalo
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Well-written, immerses you in the...
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Thinly-veiled commentary on US penal...
 
38 out of 38 people found this review helpful.

prison. huh. yeah. what is it good for?

Date of Review:  Aug 8, 2005
The Bottom Line: good book
Review: All I knew about prison guards before I read this book, I got from The Shawshank Redemption, Oz, and a bunch of much lesser TV shows/movies. They all portray prison as a big gangrape and the guards as sadistic people who enjoy beating the crap out...
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  5.0

by: underdawg
Recommended to buy: Yes

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good read
Cons
sometimes gets too dramatic.
 
7 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

Diving into Sing-Sing

Date of Review:  Sep 7, 2000
Review: Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing is journalist Ted Conover's latest book. Newjack is different from every other book on prisons, and certainly different from any other book written from the prospective of a prison guard. Conover writes a great story...
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  5.0

by: powerline
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Immersion Journalism at its best
Cons
Not yet out in paperback
 
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Bravo mr. Conover

Date of Review:  Sep 11, 2000
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From when I first heard about NewJack on an interview with terrie Gross of Fresh Air, I thought "This is going to be my kind of book." I was right. From beginning to end I was rivited by Mr. Conover's shrewd and objective look into America's...
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  4.0

by: Annie_Mae9
Recommended to buy: Yes

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fascinating
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<--- Murderers,arsonists and rapists
 

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