num_pages: 352
description: 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 year there is this remarkable look at one of America’s most dangerous prisons, where drugs, gang wars, and sex are rampant, and where the line between violator and violated is often unclear.
language: English
title: Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
titlecomplete: Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
genres: Sociology, Biography, Crime, Biography Memoir, Autobiography, Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Memoir, Journalism
ratings_count: 4138
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Vintage