Ted Conover

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing La’Quashia Sallie University of North Texas The book Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover illustrates the real conditions within the country correctional facilities that are mainly entrusted with the correcting and rehabilitating the individuals found capable of various crimes. The author depicts the correctional guards as inherently sadistic and uses excess authority in stamping their presence in the facilities. The Newjack gives a detailed report of all the…

act in adversity. Like to stand up to a bully or friend even if you’re scared. Melba, one of the 9 teenagers that went to school as a target. Temple, someone who learned to understand herself and helped the world understand her as she changed it. Ted Conover, a reporter to threw himself into another world to find out who the true villains and victims were in prison. Nonfiction literature is important because…

Sudhir Venkatesh is an Indian native who was a student at the University of Chicago beginning a journey studying sociology in the 1980s. Throughout this journey there will be riveting moments I personally did not want to end and some that make me want to stop reading. Sudhir takes the readers throughout the lives of gang members and ones living in poverty to further explore this section of Chicago. Venkatesh starts his excursion in the housing projects of Chicago to complete research on…