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    Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Random House, 2000)
    For his latest journalistic stint, Ted Conover spends a year as a prison guard at Sing Sing. The idea came, he says, after the New York Department of Correctional Services refused to let him visit their training academy and follow-up a recruit for a profile. Convinced he would never understand prisons from outside the walls, Conover took the officer exam, and two years later, entered Sing Sing as a "newjack".

    Lesson learned? Nothing could stop a journalist from getting the story, if they truly want to and are ready to go far enough to do it.

    MORE:
    Barnes&Noble
    Amazon
    First chapter of the book available here
    New York Times book review
    Newjack reviews, as printed on back cover of the book
    Interview with Ted Conover on Newjack available here, in RAM format
    Literal Mind, book review by Kevin Kemper
    Bookbrowser review
    Alaska Justice Forum, review essay by John Riley