Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover was an informative book that gave a brief look into the life of a corrections officer. Mr Conover took the reader from his first day of training through his last day on the job - one year. The book was well-written. My only problem with it was the second half of the book was loaded with history on incarcerations and punishment. The information was good; however it seemed to all be packed into the second half as filler when he had nothing more interesting to say about his job at hand.