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Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system at Sing Sing. When Ted Conovers 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 himself. The result is an unprecedented work of eyewitness journalism: the account of Conover’s year-long passage into storied Sing Sing prison as a rookie guard, or

Additional ISBNs: 9780375726620, 0375726624, 9781400033096, 1400033098