by Ted Conover
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FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, JUNE 2001
Copyright © 2000, 2001 by Ted Conover
Map © 2001 by Kayley Le Faiver
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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.
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Conover, Ted.
Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing / Ted Conover.
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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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