FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, JUNE 2001
Copyright © 2000, 2001 by Ted Conover
Map © 2001 by Kayley Le Faiver
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover, in different form, in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, in 2000.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
A portion of this work has been previously published in The New Yorker, and a portion of the Afterword appeared in slightly different form as “Sign It to Perlstein” on www.contentville.com.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Elliot Markowitz for permission to reprint “Seagulls” and “Singing in the Shower.” Reprinted by permission of Elliot Markowitz.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Random
House edition as follows:
Conover, Ted.
Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing / Ted Conover.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-4000-3309-6
1. Sing Sing Prison. 2. Ossining Correctional Facility. 3.
Prisons—New York (State)—Ossining. 4. Conover, Ted. 5. Correctional
personnel—New York (State)—Ossining—Biography. 6. Prisons—New York
(State)—Ossining—Officials and employees—Biography. I. Title.
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