"An amazing book.... The stories are spellbinding and the telling is clear and cold." –
The Washington Post Book World "[Conover] has made us fully part of his experience.... It is hard to imagine any journalist doing this more daringly or effectively." –
The New York Times
"A timely, troubling, important book." –
The Baltimore Sun "
Newjack is a graphic and troubling window into society's scrapheap. Conover is to be commended for having the chops to venture where few others would dare go.... An important cautionary tale." –
Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Newjack tells the straight skinny on a guard' s life inside prison without being overly judgmental or cloyingly sentimental. It' s experimental journalism at its best." –
The Denver Post "A devastating chronicle of the toll prison takes on the prisoners and the keepers of the keys."-
Minneapolis Star Tribune "An incisive and indelible look at the life of a corrections officer and the dark life of the penal system."-
The Dallas Morning News "A fascinating story.... Prison books crowd the shelves, but few tell the story from the point of view of the officers who spend eight hours a day doing time, hoping and praying that they make it home that night, hoping and praying that the job allows them to remain human." -
The San Diego Union-Tribune
