Research Paper on:
Newjack Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover

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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"