Reddit reviews Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

Life After Death by Damien Echols, one of the West Memphis Three. 18 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.
Newjack told from a guard's point of view.

Newjack: A journalist spends a year as a prison guard in Sing Sing, and wrote a book about it. Not from the prisoner's perspective, but still has some eye-opening moments.
http://www.amazon.com/Newjack-Guarding-Sing-Ted-Conover/dp/0375726624

Have you read this? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375726624/ Different guy, different level of depth, different experience.

Newjack by Ted Conover is by a journalist, not an anthropolgist; it might be a good start for you.

Have you read Ted Conover's Newjack?

I've not read Jon Ronson, but the phrase long form journalism brings to mind Ted Conover. He's a journalist who takes a very anthropologically minded approach to his works. I recently finished Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing which chronicles his experiences going through training to become and subsequently working as a corrections officer at a maximum security prison in New York. He went through all this trouble because the prison system officials would not grant him any journalistic access, so he went in on the down low.

I'd even more highly recommend his book Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Illegal Migrants, however. It's probably my favorite non-fiction book ever. Conover lives and works with migrant workers in true ethnographic fashion and tells vivid stories about his time in their world.

Highly recommend this book - this guy became a guard at Sing Sing so that he could write a book about it. They wouldn't let him in to do research so he had to get a job there:

https://www.amazon.com/Newjack-Guarding-Sing-Ted-Conover/dp/0375726624

Newjack Guarding Sing Sing

This book is great, I’m currently reading it and loving it. Its about a journalist who tries to follow a CO through the academy in the 90’s to be able to write about the CO’s experiences, gets denied and he decides to become a CO himself and recounts his firsthand experiences as a NY State CO. I like it because there’s a lot of similarities to my prison and what I’ve been and currently going through.

Rose Tainted Justice is also another good one i gotta read that was recommended by my instructor at the academy which deals with corruption in Corrections.

A Short History of Nearly Everything basically what the title says;

Where Men Win Glory about the Afganistan War and Pat Tillman, or really anything by Jon Krakauer (I loved his Everest book and the one on radical Mormon religion);

Newjack by Ted Conover, Conover became a corrections officer at Sing Sing prison and wrote about his experiences,

The Ghost Map about the start of epidemiology and how we started tracking viruses.

All of them are great reads where you also learn.

Have you read Newjack if so did you find it accurate/familiar with what you see on a daily basis?

NewJack: Guarding Sing Sing

It's one of the few greats that hasn't been mentioned yet.
> Conover, a journalist and university professor, recounts his experience of learning about the New York State correctional system by becoming a correctional officer for nearly a year. The author went to such lengths after being repeatedly denied cooperation by the New York State Department of Correctional Services. In the book, he divulges the inner-workings of the system.