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guarding Sing Sing
By Conover, Ted
- ISBN
- 978-0-37550-177-7
- Publisher
- New York : Random House, c2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2000
Having already documented the lives of illegal aliens (Coyotes) and hoboes (Rolling Nowhere), journalist Conover gives a compelling firsthand account of life as a corrections officer. The site is Sing Sing, once widely known for housing the electric chair that killed 614 inmates but now unremarkable among New York State's prisons. Refused entry as a journalist, Conover actually attended the training academy and became a bona fide officer for a yea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
