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Carter journalism institute of new york university. Newjack this ebook list for those who looking for to read newjack, you can read or download in pdf, epub or mobi. Guarding sing sing is the story of conovers rookie year as a guard at sing sing. Unarmed and outnumbered, prison officers at one of americas toughest maximum security jails supervise 1,800 inmates, most of whom have been convicted of violent felonies. When conoveras 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. After finding that becoming a correctional officer would be the only way for him to glean this knowledge, conover spent nearly a year training and working at new yorks infamous sing sing correctional facility as a newjack, prison slang for a rookie correctional officer.
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