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I found Conover's story completely fascinating, as would just about anyone with an opinion about the American justice system and its prisons. Sing Sing is a particularly excellent place for him to immerse himself in this world as it's a 150+ year fixture of corrections in this country, as well as a crossroads between the clearly very different worlds of Rikers Island and prisons farther upstate.
While the history and Conover's efforts to learn the job captured my attention initially, what I can' ...more
While the history and Conover's efforts to learn the job captured my attention initially, what I can' ...more
Want to know what life in a prison is like? read this one written by a corrections officer in Sing Sing.
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