Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Sing Summary

NewJack: Guarding Sing Sing
The book NewJack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover is a profound book to read it gave me a great glimpse of how the prison life really is and how you can put yourself in comparing how Hollywood movies or TV shows displays them. Conover put in details what a real life in prison is, for example the cursing, violence, cultural shock of prison, moral and ethical dilemmas, and their relationship between the guards and inmates. What shocks me is that I thought the Rikers Island was the only maximum-security prison that contains the violence inmates. Rikers Island is considering well-known prison in New York that can be brought up in many topics from my Criminal Justice courses to the media. Reading about the Sing Sing …show more content…
Also the interaction between the guards and the inmates The correctional officer put there blood, sweat and tears to control a massive group of inmates’ and don’t get paid as well as they should be. Not only that book also stated “ by early 2000, United States prisons and jails held nearly 2 million people, meaning that one out of every 140 residents was behind bars (p.19). That number is really surprising me and the number of incarceration just keep doubling up and the are like 150-300 correctional officers at each prison institution do you understand how ridiculous that will be to deal with all the madness inside there. I don’t think I will be able to control it unless we have special tactics to control them. The differences are that Riker Island never wrote a book we can only see it in movies or YouTube and we will never …show more content…
Zimbardo The Stanford Prison Experiment when few college students had to play two different roles as a guard or inmates and they were placed in a realistic prison lifestyle. The students were so into their roles that they became impulsive among each other and the more the guard got into their authority role the more the inmates got angry causing the inmates to fight the guards. Which describes the relationship between him and the other inmates. It paints the picture on problems and difficulties with working in these various conditions and was interested me were the contrast and struggle of the different groups of

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