Journalist Ted Conover gives a first-hand account of life inside the penal system. Denied a request to shadow a recruit, he applied for a job as a prison officer. This began his odyssey at Sing Sing, once a model prison but now a troubled maximum-security facility where drugs, gang wars, and sex are rampant, and the line between violator and violated is often unclear.
Journalist Ted Conover gives a first-hand account of life inside the penal system. Denied a request to shadow a recruit, he applied for a job as a prison officer. This began his odyssey at Sing Sing, once a model prison but now a troubled maximum-security facility where drugs, gang wars, and sex are rampant, and the line between violator and violated is often unclear.