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5 pages in length. Voluntarily spending time in the nation's second largest maximum security prison is not a challenge most people would take; however, when the objective to both experience and understand the shrouded world that exists outside of the public eye is brought on by oneself, the formidable task is pursued. Such was the case with Ted Conover's journalistic research behind Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing. Refused entry to capture this unseen community as a journalist, Conover – who obviously takes his work very seriously – ventured to become a corrections officer in order to achieve his literary goal. What he finds on the inside after months of intensive training is a world unlike anything about which he had ever read. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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exists outside of the public eye is brought on by oneself, the formidable task is pursued. Such was the case with Ted Conovers journalistic research behind Newjack : Guarding
Sing Sing. Refused entry to capture this unseen community as a journalist, Conover - who obviously takes his work very seriously - ventured to become a corrections officer in
order to achieve his literary goal. What he finds on the inside after months of intensive training is a world unlike anything about which he had ever read.
"Tantalized by some visits to prisons and concluding that I was unlikely to ever really understand prison from outside the walls, I took the officer exam myself. Two years
later I entered Sing Sing as a newjack" (Tooting My Own Horn). The life to which Conover was privy was not one he would choose for himself if he had
fancied a position of great power and authority. Indeed, one of the most enlightening lessons the author learned during his tenure as a Sing-Sing corrections officer was that inmates
had the upper hand in most situations regarding everyday tasks. That inmates are all but incapacitated by their very cell block existence renders the guards as their personal servants.
"A consequence of putting men in cells and controlling their movements is that they can do almost nothing for themselves. For their various needs they are dependent on
one person, their gallery officer. Instead of feeling like a big, tough guard, the gallery officer at the end of the day often feels like a waiter serving a
hundred tables or like the mother of a nightmarishly large brood of sullen, dangerous, and demanding children. When grown men are infantilized, most dont take to it too nicely"
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