Written By - Ted Conover
Narrated By - Ted Conover
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
Duration : 11 hours 17 minutes
Categories : True Crime
True Crime
Autobiography
Download Price : $24.95
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing. It is a nerve-jangling account of his passage into the storied prison and the culture of its guards - both fresh-faced "newjacks" like Conover and brutally hardened veterans. As he struggles to be a good officer, Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, works to balance decency with toughness, and participates in prison rituals - strip frisks, cell searches, cell "extractions" - that exact a toll on inmates and officers alike.
The tale begins with the corrections academy and ends with the flames and smoke of New Year's Eve on Conover's floor of the notorious B-Block. Along the way, Conover also recounts the history of Sing Sing, from draconian early punishment, to fame as the citadel of capital punishment, to its present status as New York State's "bottom of the barrel" prison.
This book will become a landmark of American journalism - the definitive presentation of the impasse between the need to imprison criminals and the dehumanization of inmates and guards - that almost inevitably takes place behind bars.
"Newjack is an astonishing work by a gifted - and dedicated - journalist. Ted Conover takes us into the dangerous, sad, amusing and instructive soul of one of America's best known prisons." -- Tom Brokaw
Other titles you may be interested in
Written By - Helen Morrison
Narrated By - Helen Morrison
Published By : Harper Collins US
Duration : 6 hours
Categories : True Crime
True Crime
Download Price : $16.95
Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers... More info... |
Written By - Ed and Lois Smart with Laura Morton
Narrated By - Sandra Burr Mel Foster
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
Duration : 5 hours 27 minutes
Categories : Prayer & Faith
True Crime
True Crime
Download Price : $24.95
At 3:58 in the morning of June 5, 2002, Ed and Lois Smart awoke to the sound of their nine-year-old daughter Mary Katherine's frightened voice. "She's gone. Elizabeth is gone." At first they... More info... |
Written By - Julie Salamon
Narrated By - Sandra Burr
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
Duration : 10 hours 45 minutes
Categories : True Crime
True Crime
Download Price : $24.95
Bob Rowe and his wife Mary worked hard to build their American dream. A suburban home, barbecues in the summer, and a fast track corporate job made their life look ideal to outsiders. Yet they... More info... |
Written By - Roger I. Depue
Narrated By - David Povall
Published By : Hachette Audio
Duration : 6 hours
Categories : True Crime
True Crime
Download Price : $20.99
A master criminal profiler's hunt for society's most violent predators. More info... |
|
© 2007 - The Playtime Books
website and all audio files are protected under copyright. |
