| 单词 | inmate |
| 例句 | More than the inmates, Bella was put off by the way the more senior officers treated us. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had tried to make sure inmates were more securely escorted from cell to mess hall and back. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not going to fly, on your use-of-force report, to say that you had been aiming for his ribs when the inmate suddenly ducked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Turning the corner from S to X, I heard one inmate say to another wistfully, “Another year.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Most jailhouse gossip quickly makes its way to the inmates, but officers were uniformly insistent about keeping them ignorant about the story of the Playhouse Four, as the group had come to be known. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, four inmates arrived who had to be strip-frisked before being placed in a holding cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By happy coincidence, some of their fellow inmates were Mexican gang members with close ties to Colombian drug dealers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Then a sergeant came by and asked me to do a psych referral on a new inmate on V-gallery and paused to check his notepad for the cell number. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was asked to leave Auburn a year later, following the death of an inmate whom he had punished for feigning illness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He repeated it until the inmate told him to get lost. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate called out to me shortly after I went by. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He placed all the food in a locker and told the inmates that he’d decide later what to do about it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I decided to start with the annoyance closest at hand: an inmate’s illegal radio antenna. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A keeplock officer appeared and asked me to let out another inmate just as Perch told me he was done. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On November 17, 1926, when White was still settling into the new job, two new inmates were convoyed up the prison’s horseshoe driveway by U.S. marshals. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A lost key could fall into inmates’ hands. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As inmates are overwhelmingly minority, the racial hierarchy at most facilities resembles that of South Africa under apartheid. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, the “veteran” inmates treated us without brutality. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the inmates disappeared when Konoval wasn’t looking, only to be recaptured a few hours later at his mother’s apartment in Queens—luckily for Konoval. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt sorry for him and angry at the inmate and told the inmate to sit down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The officer doing the “split” divides incoming inmates into two contingents that line up on either side of the room’s periphery and wait their turn on the serving line. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was, naturally, a big basketball scene— a league, in fact, with prison-paid inmate referees and a scoreboard and games that took place about every other day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To improve their chances of tuning in to a good station, inmates draped wires over their bars and across the gallery floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Three inmates were fighting; at least one had a weapon. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All I knew about Box inmates was that they were very, very bad. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One woman clutched an inmate’s hands from across the table and laughed with him about something. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Occasionally, it was an officer’s fault: The gallery officer might have failed to find the inmate and then forgotten to follow up, or someone might have forgotten to notify the gallery officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate was a good foot taller than me and well muscled. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Newgate, in need of replacement, was only thirty-three miles from the village of Sing Sing, but Lynds didn’t want the inmates from there to build his new prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked him where it was, he said his shirt was to be laundered by the notorious gangster inmate Al Capone. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There were broad perpendicular lines at gates, where inmates were supposed to stop and wait for permission to proceed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We were sandwiched between two groups: Make a mistake around the white-shirts and you would get in trouble; make a mistake around the inmates and you might get hurt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Certainly it was one of the ninety-nine rules—inmates were never to touch gates, apart from the doors of their own cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The handcuffed, injured inmates looked not despondent but electrified. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When you arrived, you received no specific information about the inmate under observation—just the special-watch logbook, the only reading ma-terial the officer was allowed to have. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even among the white inmates, the word had filtered around. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Levi Burr, an inmate imprisoned for perjury, published a detailed memoir in 1833. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I peered into his cell later that morning, after my other inmates had all gone to their programs, I saw Delacruz dozing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A much longer list of contraband items applied to inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But as inmates swirled past on their way off the gallery, they looked to me, in terms of their gang allegiances, as undifferentiated as a great school of fish. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The cell door opened and the inmate stepped out backward, wearing socks but no shoes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates and I got into a fight over this anxiety of mine. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, another inmate had gone after the baby sparrow—it almost hopped onto his finger, but then got spooked and went fluttering into somebody’s cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If inmates preferred to live mainly by the rules, I asked, then why did they give new officers like me, who were trying to enforce them, such a hard time? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Or I’d demand to count the sugar packets of an inmate who, I was sure, had taken too many. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s because no inmates are out at night—you’d never be standing next to one,” he explained. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Half of the inmates in the Box, as it turned out—all thirty on the upper floor—were not disciplinary cases but men under protective custody, of which there were two kinds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unbeknownst to us, an inmate from some nearby cell—we never found out which one—was tossing lighted matches at the heap. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And, whatever its justification in terms of inmate penitence and self-reflection, the Frenchmen immediately appreciated the administrative power of the separate system. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He painted a scenario: Chemical agents were released into a mess hall containing unruly inmates, and officers too. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The first and only inmate to be subjected to this method endured fifty seconds of torture before the power was turned off and he was found to be very much alive. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He showed me his “inmate accounts” statement—on which in-mates keep track of how much they can spend in the commissary—and told me he bet I’d never seen one like this. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rules for pursuing inmates there are not hard and fast, but the conventional wisdom says that it’s smarter to wait for the pursued to leave. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of writing the guy up, he proceeded to argue with him, and a dozen other inmates who gathered around, about the fate of the contraband. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The seats nearest the trash can where inmates scraped off their plates were left empty, too, so that no one would get splashed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A new inmate arrived on W from the psych unit with one arm and no mattress—I’d have to make a few calls to straighten that one out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, between a quarter and a third of the inmates had killed somebody. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Over days and weeks, I found myself, like his fellow inmates, stopping by to talk to Larson fairly often. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This was an old inmate joke, as they were forbidden to have cash. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The center had all of the trappings of a high-security prison, and its inmates were incarcerated there for relatively long periods. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Then an inmate called out to us on the flats: “You all were witnesses!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I recall looking around at my fellow inmates, thinking: Would someone, anyone, just shout out the word tired? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z All I have is $1.75 in my inmate account right now. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Those who were the inmates are now officers. It’s payback time!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pretty soon, with countless inmates from other floors joining in, it sounded like Mama against the world. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t good to know inmates’ crimes, because then you might treat them unequally. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You see her?” he said quietly of a woman holding hands with an inmate at a table. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I help the other inmates with their chores. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Another trainer, Luther, told us he once stepped up to a fellow officer whom he had seen give an inmate five and then walk down the hallway, arms over shoulders, with him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before our shift the next day, the training officer underscored the seriousness of what had happened and said that the injured inmate was very likely to sue the Department. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Boy George: The inmate who thought this up couldn’t stop laughing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The young inmates had completed school and work for the day. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I said hello to the two inmate servers behind the steam table, as usual; one nodded in response. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the next cell, the inmate is lying on his bunk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Or compare the crack dealer’s odds to those of a death-row inmate in Texas, which executes more prisoners than any other state. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Set into the wall by these stairs was an old, rusted gate, and an inmate would later ask me if that was where the Death House used to be. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In a split second, Birch had a hand around Massey’s throat, and I found myself joining him in pushing the inmate against the wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate said something else, and the officer spit in his face. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What had happened was that there had been a farm truck accident that injured five inmates and killed one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I made my way from one end to the other, saying “Excuse me” to inmates in the way, and repeated my mantra. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When the inmates are all locked in their cells, most of what is stressful in the life of a block officer goes away. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was keeplocked this time, he said, for extorting from another inmate in the commissary. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I assigned a nickname to another of my inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The moment an inmate gets anything on you, he’ll have power over you and is certain, eventually, to sell you out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You didn’t have to work the galleries long to realize that a large proportion of inmates were mentally ill. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That inmates run the place, and nobody follows the rules.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were ninety-nine guidelines, all of which we had to memorize, governing the minutiae of inmate life. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His Dictionary of Evolution, he told me, he had bought from another inmate for a pack of cigarettes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know they can’t have sneakers worth more than fifty dollars, right? Well, their homeboy comes in wearing new Air Jordans. The inmate takes off his old sneakers, and they switch ’em under the table. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some went back into their cells promptly and voluntarily, but many talked, traded cigarettes, or even jogged away from their own cells to pass something to another inmate at the other end of the gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tens of thousands of inmates stood in rows while the SS checked their numbers. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I listened as the inmate’s voice rose; it was powerful yet broken, amid the weeping, the sobbing, the sighing of the entire “congregation”: “All the earth and universe are God’s!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was normal to beat prisoners,” he said, explaining that his instructors taught him never to smile and to think of inmates as “dogs and pigs.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A dismal assignment, I thought: garbagemen to the inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Each death row inmate was placed in a five-by-eight-foot cell with a metal door, a commode, and a steel bunk. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I walked at the end of the procession, as was customary, and could see that the last porter in the file, a slight jokester inmate known as Beezle, was barely making it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When the OIC announced the return over the PA system, my first job was to clear the galleries of other inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This was Utility 1, a crew of medium-security inmates whose job it was to mow and clean in the area just outside the walls. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And when I asked my uncle, several years later, what became of the inmate, my uncle told me that he was still there. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In their deprivation, inmates would grasp at anything. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The takeover of Attica by inmates allowed the country to learn about cruel practices within prisons such as solitary confinement, where inmates are isolated in a small confined space for weeks or months. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The commissioner of corrections has to approve all lockdowns, because they are stressful to inmates, essentially turning them all into keeplocks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Trefusis, who went to minister to Slant, delivers word from the sick-camp that one of the inmates of that place has refused food. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Fellow inmates, concerned, and guards, apprehensive, asked what was wrong with me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There was almost no limit to the number of visits an inmate could have, even if he was keeplocked or in the Box. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The huge demand for inmate labor kept the prison overfull, while Clinton prison, far from downstate markets, was partly empty. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We gave the inmates twenty minutes or so to finish their meals, then set back down the gallery wearing latex gloves and bearing huge trash bags. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Smith, in a gesture that I would later realize earned him stature among inmates and yet accomplished his goal of discipline, would let them back out for rec if he felt he’d made his point. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d stopped an inmate from another gallery who was on R without permission and asked him what was in his paper sack. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On a cold or rainy day, the gym could fill with upward of four hundred inmates, and there were moments when I would be the only officer there with them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “When they were digging the foundation, they found the bodies of a lot of old inmates.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When, at training’s end, I suggested in a feedback session that some inmates be brought in to talk to us, maybe to participate in IPC workshops, everybody looked at me as if I were nuts. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next five years, Blake schemed a way to escape the high walls and drab food of "the Scrubs," as it was called by the inmates. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Despite the ominous tone, and my better instincts, I’d countenanced enough inmate misbehavior and disrespect to feel invigorated by the thought that this is where it all stops. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate continued to struggle as he was carried up the stairs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Auburn Prison, meanwhile, had been built in the style of Newgate Prison in New York City, with inmates housed in “apartments” holding two to twenty inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The first three inmates were bleeding badly around the head; the officers wore latex gloves. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not uncommon for inmates to be seriously injured, losing fingers or limbs, after working long hours in brutal and dangerous conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z You didn’t have to be flaying an inmate’s back with a cat- o’-nine-tails to be wounded by the job. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Research on inmates would come under scrutiny and start being heavily regulated about fifteen years later, because they’d be considered a vulnerable population unable to give informed consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Two or three others monitored the metal detector and pat-frisked inmates as they passed through the short tunnel between the mess hall and the bridge. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The State usually wouldn't bring inmates from Angola to New Orleans for hearings but instead had them view proceedings on a video hookup at the prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Third, after warning shots, you could “fire to disable any inmates who may approach.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I waded slowly, blindly, determined not to fall and entertain the inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no rule against it, but what favors was the officer passing back in the inmate’s direction? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate, I knew, could plug it into the outlet in his cell, place a pan on it, and do some home cooking. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the Box at Coxsackie, which had seemed a true solitary confinement, with inmates hard-pressed to communicate with each other through solid-steel doors with Lexan windows, the cells here were barred. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d never heard the expression applied to a member of the staff before, only to inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An inmate had escaped from the Rikers Island Visit Room that same summer, despite the many fail-safes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The 160-pound dummy—a stand-in for a suicidal inmate—was next: I wrapped my arms around his middle and lifted him up to relieve the pressure around the neck. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just a hassle with another inmate, CO,” he said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Another new inmate arrived on W and rightly observed that his cell was a mess. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate claimed his cut was an accident, but clearly he’d been attacked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The number of inmates has tripled in the last twenty-five years, and rates of incarceration keep climbing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Stress Agent: An inmate I was always having to shoo off the gallery would announce me with this nickname whenever he saw me coming. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sing Sing moved in some ways into the future, incorporating a small number of vocational programs, a few school courses, a counseling staff, and expanded opportunities for inmate recreation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pretty soon, newly freed inmates flooded the yard. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Finally, in 1943, the last of the original cellblock’s inmates were moved out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I let him into the shower, allowed two officers and an inmate through the center gate, and then returned to the task of trying to clear W-gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate whose cell was being searched was a tough-looking guy in dreadlocks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting yelled at now and then—whether by sergeants, other officers, or inmates—was just life, especially in Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Jerome was a bad camp, because the director was really tough and made some inmates cut down trees for the whole camp for heat in the winter. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I felt bad for him, and thought the inmate with the tray in his hands was perhaps being oversensitive. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was disconcerted by the cells with lights still on and inmates standing up, because they were invariably backlit and I couldn’t see their faces or what their hands were doing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Reaching out for the wall to keep myself oriented, I touched an inmate’s shirt and recoiled. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you have a problem with picking this inmate’s comb off the floor?” he asked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The other half, separated by an iron gate, held the sick inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A few inmates appeared at them to examine us. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Osborne, the inmates’ friend, chains in one hand and book in the other, is the only hero corrections can possibly have. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates started getting abusive, and Mama, of course, yelled right back. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All sorts of inmates liked to lean on the bars of R-29 cell and talk, talk, talk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An inmate had rolled endless yards of toilet paper into tight cords before weaving the cords together into the noose. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If a large contingent of inmates was being moved, even more officers went along. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As recently as twenty years ago, old- time officers told me, it would be exceptional to find more than ten B-block inmates on keeplock. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z New officers always needed guidance, inmates always had to be listened to but at the same time kept in their place. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Two hostages, it turned out, had been seriously injured by the inmates, but ten hostages and twenty-nine inmates were then killed by police in the attack. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Our subsequent games were constantly interrupted by inmate Auguste, in the next cell down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You OJTs—and a lot of other officers—need to get more confrontational with these inmates,” he said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing on the mess-hall bridge, two sergeants waited for inmates to get out of earshot and then wished us all a Merry Christmas. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The punishment was popular among prison officials because inmates so feared it and because it left no disfiguring marks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like I was talking through glass to some sort of prison inmate. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Numerous inmates shouted back their disagreement at me, but rising over them all was the roar of Grandma. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Another officer locked and unlocked the gates that controlled inmate movement off the galleries. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Downstairs, by contrast, were the baddest of the bad—almost exclusively, inmates who had assaulted guards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nigro had told us that whenever prison administrators wanted to know what was really going on in a prison, what the mood of the inmates was, they asked the gallery officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One opened a door to a cell reserved for inmates with AIDS. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z At first it looked like a routine hassle: An inmate refused to sit next to the one adjacent to his assigned seat. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If the inmate wasn’t doing what you told him to, as long as it wasn’t “Shine my shoes,” you could use physical force on him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Bags with inmates’ names on them filled practically every available space. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It houses some 684 inmates, more than the entire population of many prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lynds’s achievement—the seemingly total subjugation of a large group of violent inmates—is one that would probably dazzle most correction officers and wardens today. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In Emmett’s first year, the jail held nearly three hundred prisoners, including four murderers, sixty-five thieves, two arsonists, twenty-four burglars, two forgers, five rapists, and twenty-four inmates classified as lunatics. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z From the diary, he learned that on November 3, 1943, SS Einsatzgruppen entered at the camp with orders to liquidate the six thousand inmates. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At Attica and Clinton, he said, inmates didn’t even talk to female officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The SS then condemned him to death, him and two other inmates who had been found to possess arms. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And some inmates in a brawling frame of mind need additional persuading. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But in fact I was still quite new, a fact driven home to me one day as I was seating inmates in the mess hall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z B-block could get hot and sticky if there was no breeze outside, and on this day, many of the inmates who went to the yard after midday chow peeled off their shirts before heading outside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a few “well-dressed” inmates were wandering between the blocks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of wasting so much of the inmates’ time on rec, Larson thought, Sing Sing should put a small library on every gallery so that inmates could sit in their cells and read. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They consulted their village priest, and the result was that Elizabeth Lavenza became the inmate of my parents’ house—my more than sister—the beautiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you know, officers, certain porters, inmates on a visit...” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not calling another run until all those inmates are in their cells! Clear your galleries!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad sends money all over the country to prison inmates who write to him, probably to this day. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I reminded inmates of many different actors and the characters they played in movies, but he was the first one to see a resemblance to Forrest Gump. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anybody wearing the fraternity pin,” he added, and touched a blue dot tattooed under his left eye— an insigne, a visible password, by which certain former prison inmates could identify him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Shielded from the eyes of COs by milling inmates, he stabbed himself deeply, purposefully creating a sucking chest wound. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The challenges of managing the prison—which was designed to hold twelve hundred inmates but instead had three times that number—were overwhelming. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They trade normal diurnal rhythms for the perk of having very little inmate contact—at night, all the inmates are locked in their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What inmates had to do with this, I had no idea. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A celebrity among the Norfolk Prison Colony inmates was a rich, older fellow, a paralytic, called John. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The prison’s most famous warden, Lewis Lawes, called his memoir Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing—the number referred to the sum of the length of sentences of all the inmates under his supervision. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The taste was like something powerful, like the time her father was drinking some home brew that one of the inmates had made, and he let her have a couple of sips. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The inmate tried to retaliate but was brought down in an instant, crunched by the three big guys. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate who had probably set it appeared to be having second thoughts. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But to my surprise, most officers seemed to have little interest in inmates’ histories. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was freedom of movement within the dorms except during the three daily counts; inmates washed their own clothes and could cook their own meals, and there were television rooms. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No inmates and guards around us, no noisy television, no cold gray room, no intercom blasting names and demands and rules. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z This was because a fight could start around those seats, with the accidental bump of a diner by an inmate standing in line or a deliberate act, such as a clan-destine stabbing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His work began with making sure that Death Row inmates stayed healthy—not just for their own good but, perversely, so they couldn’t succeed in suicide and thereby “cheat the chair.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, any inmate who received Newjack had to surrender it immediately, on penalty of receiving a ticket for contraband. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Our group felt very white to me compared to the on-duty officers we passed—and particularly compared to the inmates we saw. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Until a year or two before I arrived, inmates could sit more or less where they wanted to. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Magdalys gasped as they all embraced quickly and then hurried out of the way of a rush of inmates swarming a knuckleskull rider. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The sergeant, annoyed to have been called up for nothing, advised the inmate, “Next time, cut the long way. It works a lot better.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Others would begin at B-block, get turned off by the greater chaos factor—the younger, more transient inmates or the higher incidence of gang violence—and head back to A-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An inmate was standing outside the shower cell I had unlocked for the inmate who had a visit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Reports showed that at the behest of contractors, inmates were sometimes punished for poor work and that some contractors were even allowed to brandish the whip. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate agreed to a new course of medication, much to the committee’s satisfaction. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many cell doors opened immediately; inmates had been leaning on them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Following almost every series of incidents, officers would search the yard, the gym, and other places inmates congregated and prepared for battle, looking for weapons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I recognized the inmate, but I didn’t realize he smelled worse than everyone else. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The moral was: Don’t confide in an inmate about your personal life. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the summer of 1971, Attica was jumpy; it took only a small confrontation in the yard between two inmates and three officers to spark the violent inmate takeover that would make history. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Two iron rings had been fastened to the wall; hanging nearby were a number of the whips, known as the cat-o’- nine-tails, and—according to one inmate account—a gag. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As the inmate put his hands behind him and through an opening in the door, Feliciano cuffed him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Down a dogleg corridor from the SHU was the State Shop, where inmates on their way in or out of the prison were processed and given clothes and bedding. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My cellmate was among at least a hundred nutmeg men who, for money or cigarettes, bought from kitchen-worker inmates penny matchboxes full of stolen nutmeg. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That day was the commissary run for R-gallery, and the inmates right above her office put their faces to the chain-link fence and started yelling at her. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When they first arrived, the officers told us, inmates segregated here received no privileges beyond an hour of daily exercise—no reading or writing materials, no personal property. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Few galleries, therefore, had inmates at large after 11 A.M. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of inmates were there to receive us, sticks in hand, striking anywhere, anyone, without reason. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She sentenced Johnny and Tyrone to prison, making them the nation’s youngest inmates. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The city built a new prison, moved the inmates into their new quarters, then rehabbed the old prison and turned it into a high school. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Three minutes and many thuds later, the team emerged with the inmate in handcuffs and leg restraints. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We had seen videotape of this at lineup: thirty or forty seconds of inmates massing, running and stabbing, attacking and fleeing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, a recording came on the line, saying, “This is a collect call from an inmate at the Massachusetts State Penitentiary...,” before another person chimed in. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z In various court documents, judges described Cofield as a “con artist,” “no more than a gadfly and an exploiter of the court system,” and “the most litigious inmate in the system.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A recurrent theme was of “hard-boiled, but not incorrigible inmates who somehow came around under the compassionate, but firm hand of the warden.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An inmate I couldn’t see from two cells down was listening and chimed in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, a classmate who would spend a week working with that officer told me how every morning an inmate would fix him his coffee, passing the mug out through the bars of his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This was their main purpose, it appeared: to find a way to manage the inmates such that, with daily meds, they could return to the general population. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This era saw baseball teams organized among inmates, as well as the groundbreaking establishment of an organization of inmate self-government, the Mutual Welfare League. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As we showed our I.D.s to leave the prison—a safeguard against inmates walking out the front door—I decided that if I were an escaping in-mate, I’d stay away from the fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, there was the tale of the civilian teacher who allowed an eager inmate to help her grade papers and confided in him when her boyfriend dumped her. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate only pretended to turn it down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I watched inmate representatives figure out how to distribute to every inmate the “holiday cheer” they had chosen: a can of Coke and two bags of chips. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While the inmates milled around, waiting their turn at the window, I got the package room officers to let me inside, where I sat in a comfortable chair. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, however, the leaders turned themselves in, so as not to cause harm and distress to the rest of the inmates. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Maybe a quarter of all inmates had antisocial personality, the psychologist at the Academy had said, and I was ready to believe it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of inmates and corrections officers died in the riot. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z In case of an inmate bowel movement that yielded some “prize,” he was to call a sergeant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There is nothing inside them to absorb sound except the inmates’ thin mattresses and their bodies. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Antennas strewn across the gallery floor could cause someone to trip, and if they seemed likely to do so, I’d have the inmates pull them in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ri-ordan took out his little two-inch knife, the maximum size we were allowed to have, and, seemingly on a whimsy, sliced up all the notices on the inmate bulletin board. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So who here can tell me how to do inmate CPR?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He has two hours of free time a day, “outside time” that he can use to play basketball or talk to other inmates. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Somehow, one of my inmates on V-gallery had gotten one of the kittens into his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The year before, an inmate had broken a bone in his face and he’d needed six stitches. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate finally agreed to the daily medication. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had helped him at count time once before, and when I complained about two inmates who were slow to lock in, Michaels replied that they were good guys. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, Lynds had heard of an angry inmate who had threatened to kill him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One inmate, in the middle of being frisked, took his hands off the wall and dashed out the door. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Historically the inmates were required to do backbreaking labor, including picking cotton, for about four cents an hour. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Osborne conversed with his fellow inmates and soon felt sympathetic and righteous. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But often the problem was with the inmates—they could take forever with showering, shaving, and coiffing, trying to get together the perfect self-presentation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Early in the twentieth century, inmates who prized special bars sewn onto their uniforms for time served were humiliated when, as punishment, these symbols of accomplishment were removed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z One proposed that the officer simply divide the food evenly among the seventy-five inmates on the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A training officer had mentioned that several of us had already been the target of inmate grievances, and one officer had even received two. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And they showed us how two partners could hold opposite ends of a baton to create an impromptu chair for an injured CO or inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Or she would get into loud arguments with inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You’d notice them stretched out on grassy slopes on a sunny day or milling beneath the windows of certain buildings where inmates dropped food for them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had already attained Incentive Level A, the highest incentive level a young inmate could achieve, and he was housed among other low-risk youths in a hall where the atmosphere was generally relaxed. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z As the inmate apologized to me, Goldman sized it all up and awaited my verdict: He was poised to jump the guy if I deemed it an attack. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The weekly debates between inmate teams were also held in the school building. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Although he never said it, I could tell that my uncle had befriended the inmate. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Four other officers were overpowered as well, and thirty-two SHU inmates, the worst men in the prison, were soon out of their cells, terrifying their captives and destroying the Box’s control center. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Galleries are understaffed, and the officers on them, surrounded by inmates all day, are put at risk and run ragged. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, every day, two different officers would count the class, as if we were inmates, and present the completed count slip, along with a fire and safety report, to Sergeant Bloom. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Studies have shown that most of the new inmates swelling the system are nonviolent drug offenders subject to mandatory sentencing laws. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unsure exactly why I did so, I went to talk to the inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate was stripped, his hands were tied to the rings, and then, to use a modern phrase, it was payback time: The keeper he had offended administered blows to his back. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I never looked back, but that doesn’t make me any different from a million inmates who have left a prison behind them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In between pat- frisking inmates as they entered or exited the mess hall, there was time to just stand around and gab. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Right behind the Muslim was an inmate I knew a little bit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The inmate? Or the taxpayers who put out a hundred thousand dollars for each of these cells?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An inmate who was known to read a lot could check out more than the permitted maximum number of books. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The main duty of the shift, he reminded me, was just making sure that the inmates weren’t dead. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew there could be several reasons for the inmate not receiving rec. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The PA system stays quiet, because there is nothing the inmates need to be told. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But he also shared with us his surprising view that even at the most tightly run prisons, “we rule with the inmates’ consent.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If you’d ever wondered about inmates’ lives outside prison, here were some of the missing pieces. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered what kind of love the woman felt for the inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On my side of the room, two inmates caught the spirit of this incident and utterly ignored my warnings to take only the allowed amount of juice. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The psychologist had conceded that the single largest group of unwell inmates—those suffering from so-called antisocial personality—was harder to pick out of the crowd. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In case of attack by an inmate—or any violent situation we could not control—we were to pull the pin out of the top of our radio by tugging on the lanyard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The hardest part for a new officer, though, was inmates’ love of testing a newjack. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Drawing from sources as diverse as aikido and barroom brawls, the instructors taught us ways to tangle with an attacking or resisting inmate that you weren’t likely to see in, say, a John Wayne movie. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I helped make sure my group of escorted inmates got locked into their cells, then went down to the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in the 1930s, warden Lewis Lawes had upset the inmate population by prohibiting the popular practice of tending rabbits. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Poor Fig was locked in a metal cage, smothered with strange smells, and surrounded by furry howling inmates, while I sat here having breakfast. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Some sleeping inmates had left their lights on. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A few visitors were already at tables, sitting across from inmates—men in orange jumpsuits. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z By inserting a bullet into the base of an extended antenna and then quickly compressing it, an inmate could fire the inaccurate but still potentially deadly gun. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He sang it again and again, smiling when the inmates stared at him as if he were crazy and smiling when I stared at him in admiration. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Except for Dieter, back at the Academy, my passage through the Department of Correctional Services had been blissfully free of anyone, officer or inmate, with the slightest interest about my background. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And outside the gym were a weight-lifting area and a lawn, tended by inmates who, on warm days, reclined there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There, according to my classmate Buckner, who preceded her to the women’s prison, an older woman inmate was in the habit of bragging to officers about her daughter, the correction officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As inmates came in from exercising outdoors, one slugged him in the jaw—he didn’t even see it coming. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And like many inmates, he has scars: three inches long on his waist below the ribs, about one inch long on his arm, penny-size circles that look like two bullet wounds on a shoulder blade. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The only inmates who were out on the galleries were three or four porters. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked bemused, not angry, when he saw an infraction, and his look said to the inmate, “Did you really think you were going to get away with that?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, everyone was back on his feet, including three mashed-looking inmates, who were handcuffed behind their backs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was depressed by what it represented—the hours measured, the boredom of inmates and irritation of officers, the ticking of the clock, the niggling accountability. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Officers who lent their strength to help an inmate were openly mocked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the downside of lockdowns: having to do the inmates’ scut work. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Perlstein gave me a lighter and sent me down to the north-facing gallery by myself, with instructions to light inmates’ cigarettes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It turned out to be an inmate’s bedding and mattress on fire. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I went and told the inmate he could go. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Both inmates and younger officers tend to be on the move. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You were never supposed to betray your ignorance to inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates waited for their sentences to run out, and the officers waited for retirement. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was nothing like our experience at Coxsackie: Even these hardened inmates, who so outnumbered us, were intimidated by a large detachment of officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I came to work prepared to do battle with inmates, not fellow officers, and I felt I wasn’t handling it quite right. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the crime wave led to more inmates, and by 1927 there was serious overcrowding in all of the state’s facilities. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The former double agent now morphed into the model prisoner, charming the Scrubs' guards and administrators and making friends among its inmates. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The conversation left me thinking about the many reasons that an officer might come to regard inmates as savages. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He apparently didn’t know that in the Academy, we had been ordered not to talk to the inmates around us. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, three or four inmates had chased and beaten two others as they were leaving the gym. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s to keep any inmates from turning it on. They did that once. Hey, don’t worry about it. Write up a new form.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood for a few moments in front of each cell, checking whether an inmate was breathing by the rise and fall of sheets and blankets. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the handcuffed inmates awaiting their cases had stopped talking and were listening intently. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But there was music—an inmate was playing a tape loudly from his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent two shifts and some overtime watching an inmate from Tappan who an officer had seen swallowing something white during a routine pat-frisk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A crazy person was a bug—slang used by both guards and inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And so the inmates went in and out, doing kind of a shuffle, perhaps a by-product of medication, perhaps because we had confiscated their shoelaces so they couldn’t hang themselves. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On that first night at the Academy, Sergeant Bloom had asserted, unexpectedly, that “the most important thing you can learn here is how to communicate” with inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A Code Blue would be called if, for example, the count came up an inmate short and finding him was the top priority. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Though inmates still tested and tried to intimidate me on V, they did so without knowing that after the pressures of working R-and-W, I felt almost impervious to their lesser demands. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was fearful of other inmates, not of officers, and spent half his time looking over his shoulder for would-be attackers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, in practical terms, it was impossible not to turn away from an inmate occasionally—as Rufino’s shiner demonstrated. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And with each new injection, their bodies responded faster, which seemed to indicate that the cells were increasing the inmates’ immunity to cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In addition, he said with a wink, lis-tening carefully would enable us to get information out of inmates, get them to tell us things “when they don’t even know it!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was later determined that only seven or eight inmates were fighting, but at the time it had seemed like a full-scale riot. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At Idek’s command, two inmates lifted me and led me to him. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, despite my urgings, he dragged his feet; he had things to discuss with the inmate in the cell next to his, and the one next to that. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z R-and-W had all of these, and the worst cases were loners, shunned by the mass of inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates whose cells surrounded the courtyard were shouting obscenities at us through their windows. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was typical: There were vending machines against the back walls and small rectangular tables where inmates could meet with family members. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z This inmate had transferred a couple of weeks before to R-gallery from the Box, but they had not yet returned his personal property. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, it wasn’t a good idea to pull a cigarette out of an inmate’s mouth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We were led through another twisting passage before arriving at the TB department: a series of cells crowded with infected inmates. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Horrified, he and the other Hitler Youth shrank back from the inmates. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A glass container, such as a bottle of juice, might be salvaged from the trash by an inmate and turned into shards for weapons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They’ll pull the inmate aside when his gallery leaves and talk to him when his friends are far beyond the locked gates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He chose the Ohio prison because its inmates had cooperated in several other studies without resistance, including one in which they’d been infected with a potentially deadly disease called tularemia. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But the lieutenant had no interest in the inmate’s mental state. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Working for the Soros Foundation, a privately funded philanthropy organization, Goldfarb had been focusing on a very specific health crisis—a hundred thousand inmates in Russian prisons with active TB. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z No other prison system I know of limits inmate access to Newjack. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The story said that random urine tests had shown that 21 percent of Sing Sing inmates were on drugs, compared to a statewide prison average of 6 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The red-dot officers were coming down the stairs with two inmates in handcuffs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All the block inmates stood naked between the rows of bunks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I did the talking to our inmate, a Latino in his twenties. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It continued, on execution day, with his certifying that the inmate scheduled to die was sane. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates I was in charge of shouted out encouragement and support. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In return for Toussaint, we received an inmate to take back with us. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For one Hearst Metro- tone newsreel he sat in his office, young inmates around him wearing masks to preserve their anonymity. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I began first telling my black brother inmates about the glorious history of the black man—things they never had dreamed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Michaels had grown up in Brooklyn and, more than most officers from the city, considered the inmates to be basically decent guys, his “homies.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The instructor placed his boot on the chest of an imaginary prone inmate, pumped five times, then straightened up, looked down, and blew five times loudly toward the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All the inmates were male, and almost all were black or Latino teenagers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s going to be a prison with escaped inmates. I looked it up. Lots of blood and guts.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Many judged themselves and their peers on the degree of control they were able to maintain over inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Being held hostage—suddenly finding yourself prisoner on a volatile inmate- run Death Row—could damage a person in fundamental ways. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In trying to stop him, the officer had broken his dental plate, the inmate complained; and all he’d been trying to swallow anyway, he said, was a written note. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates made fun of us: “Look at the little officer, teaching the old man to march . . . Hey, little general, how many rations of bread does the old man give you for this?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been working the first floor of the Hospital Building when an officer in B-block was struck on the head with a broom handle by an inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With the fervor of lawyers, the inmates tried to convince St. George that mess-hall workers were paid so little they deserved any extras they could find. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, there was welfare, and a few inmates had means, but it was mostly a mystery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They machine-gunned the inmates to death and then burned the bodies. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The officers silently accepted the assistance of the inmates, but none of them could come up with a solution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Gallery officers run the galleries, the floors on which inmates live. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate started to reel the bird in, but I put my foot on the string. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates commandeered an approaching vehicle, forced White inside, and sped away. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I thought of the inmates I knew whom nobody was likely to remember at Christmas. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because he was still serving a sentence at Kansas State Penitentiary, and therefore was in danger of retaliation from other inmates, Wells had never been publicly identified as the informer. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z For people who are in confinement, inmates go a lot of places. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We were relieved early and walked over to the chapel, where Martinez sat notarizing inmate legal documents for an hour. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the men’s bathroom, inmates smoked—also against the rules but, from what I could tell, tacitly accepted. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Each inmate had an officer holding the chain of his cuffs and marching him back to my gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I signaled to Fay over the heads of several inmates, and he indicated I should answer it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because we’re always in a hurry and often don’t know the inmates, this is harder than it sounds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I would insist to an inmate who’d given himself the larger, milk-size cup of juice, as though he had shorted me ten dollars in change for a twenty. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually, it was the result of a sudden flare-up—say, an inmate who was angered by something you had said or told him to do who went on the at-tack. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The government ordered him to be held as a "restricted or isolated prisoner" to keep him separated from the other inmates. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I hesitated, with the platter in mid-air; then I passed it along to the inmate waiting next to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Only then, after we had collected our weapons from the wall tower, were we, our guns, and our inmate all finally united inside the van. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So for now, she waited, hoping for a phone call to tell her whether Joseph was still an inmate, was among the dead, or, God willing, had escaped. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Governor Nelson D. Rockefeller refused to negotiate directly with the inmates, and on September 13, worried that the inmates were harming their hostages, the state police launched a bloody battle to retake the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits: more harmonious thoughts: what seemed better regulated feelings had become the inmates of my mind. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Strangely enough, in view of this class, we had been told never to communicate with the handful of inmates who worked in the Academy. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He met daily with representatives of inmate groups. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The officer’s job was to insist—though, as a fallback position, an experienced officer might simply see whether the fourth inmate in line would take the seat. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where are you going?” the inmate had asked when he saw me on the gate at the end of my shift. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perlstein,” the huge white man who worked in the Special Housing Unit, or the Box, with Sing Sing’s worst inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When his wife died, in 1937, every single inmate is said to have filed out through gates past her casket in the warden’s house and then back into prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The large wooden chair was built in the 1930s, and inmates had painted it yellow before attaching its leather straps and electrodes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The inmates ran into a farmhouse and seized an eighteen-year-old girl and her younger brother. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Shooing inmates away from the cell of my most popular keeplock was a never-ending job. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates waved at them, and they waved back. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What made it fundamentally different from the other housing units of Sing Sing was that its inmates did not, as a rule, leave the building; in fact, they barely left their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Every inmate still out claimed he was a porter—an inmate employee who swept, mopped, or cleaned up the common areas at a designated time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z White threatened to fire the guards if they ever abused an inmate again. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And race has entered the equation, on the side of the inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Another inmate housed with Joe wrote to us and described him as disabled, horribly mistreated, and wrongfully condemned to die in prison for a non-homicide crime at thirteen. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z No, the inmate said, he would be happy to go home as soon as he could. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I quickly joined a group of officers who marched upstairs to get the R inmates to lock in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were locked in for twenty-three hours a day, just like Box inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A lieutenant wanted me to check the logbook for an entry written three weeks earlier, something about when an inmate had been keeplocked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked if he had really written it, he acknowledged that another inmate had helped him, but his excitement about the poem was undiminished. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Five inmates had committed suicide within the past five months. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The government reported that five inmates had been killed and that fourteen had escaped. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z But perhaps in part because inmates cannot be “broken” as quickly as they used to be, their sentences in these segregation units now drag on and on, sometimes for years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One sergeant ascertained that an inmate had threatened to punch Mendez in the face and demanded to know who it was. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Escort officers spend a while in the mess hall and then get to leave the block for chunks of the day, taking groups of inmates to other buildings in the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time the facility housed some fourteen thousand inmates, twenty of whom Bobby played. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “You give an inmate an inch, and he’s got a mile.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So we hung near Cradle’s office, where there was a ledge over our heads, then migrated to the gym and used some of the inmates’ exercise equipment until Cradle called us back to her office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The sweep was an almost leisurely circumnavigation of the block on ground level, to check that all inmates were in and all gates were locked, that everything was in order. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in charge of about sixty inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Fay and I weren’t coming close to making the inmates do what they were supposed to do, and I was uncertain about whether I should use my power to compel them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was also footage of about six white officers subduing a flailing black inmate in an office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In a minute or two the inmates from the flats would be streaming up the stairs, over the third-floor bridge, and into the mess hall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The look on his face reminded me of the look on the face of the inmate I’d taken to the ER when he thought he had a cockroach in his ear. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought I would probably notice an inmate wearing Air Jordans. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before heading that way, we visited 7-Building, the “honor block,” with space for eighty-six inmates who had gone several years without being cited for disciplinary infractions. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I fumbled with my rings, tried a likely candidate, and was pulling open the gate when I realized it was inmates on the other side—about four of them—not officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like pieces of fried chicken, waffles found ways to fly out of the serving pan and into the hands and pockets of inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Prisoners in some facilities would be placed in a "sweatbox," a casket-sized hole or a box situated where the inmate would be forced to endure extreme heat for days or weeks. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Then came the time to go to sleep, and slowly the inmates returned to their blocks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine the scene in his mind’s eye just then, the little movie replaying, the recalcitrant inmate being “encouraged” to return to his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But months later, when I had become a civilian and Delacruz had become an inmate at a medium-security prison, I wrote him a letter, with my post office box as a return address. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind it were small offices for an inmate photographer, who snapped keepsake Polaroid pictures, and a counselor who could help with matters such as weddings. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Short of becoming an inmate, I thought, how could you ever learn what that world was like? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Correctional officers had the power to punish young inmates by adding time to their sentences, with the result that California juveniles were locked up almost three times longer than the national average. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A woman who is involved with a Sing Sing inmate got an early copy to him through the visit room and told me it was being passed around enthusiastically. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I finished my Misbehavior Report and stepped out of the office to let inmates back into their cells from chow. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The first case I passed contained objects with hidden compartments in which inmates had stashed things—a false- bottomed Coke can, a hollow-heeled shoe, and a hollow-handled hairbrush. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then an inmate on my gallery got called on a visit, and he was entitled to a shower. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If three friends wanted to sit together and there was one seat remaining in a row, the first inmate might refuse it, since that would separate him from the others. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the old days there were few such inmates, and often they would be sent to solitary confinement, known as the Special Housing Unit or the Box. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew this because there were Nikkei spies among the inmates. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z This was because, to relieve their boredom and express their contempt, inmates were occasionally tossing items out of their cells in hopes they might hit one of us. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “And there were no other inmates of the house?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z This “irritant dust” was most likely to be used in small situations with one or two recalcitrant inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like so many other inmates, he had a dozen or so girlie pinups on his wall, but his were conspicuously clothed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The essential relationship inside a prison is the one between a guard and an inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z B-block’s plumbing was unbelievably dismal, I thought as I locked an inmate into the second shower. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He argued over when the television could be on, when inmates could cook in the kitchen, and whether someone could leave a box of personal stuff in a common area. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In a far corner behind the weight area, at the bottom of a small flight of stairs, a regular group of inmates practiced some kind of martial art. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The subjects would range from report writing to the use of force, from penal law to “standards of inmate behavior,” from tool and key control to drug awareness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One senior training officer, who happened to be black, had suggested that there was nothing wrong with such a greeting and that we ought to get in the habit of using it with our inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Cigarette packages that lacked a New York State revenue stamp—cigarettes purchased out of state, for example, or on Indian reservations—were not allowed to be distributed to inmates, and were apparently thrown away. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate who started it all had a fifteen- years-to-life sentence and apparently felt he had nothing to lose. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was surprised the morning I saw him, unescorted, walking by me on the flats with a group of inmates headed for the gym. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A boy was about to follow his father into the inmates’ bathroom. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He never said it, but I heard in his voice that he cared for the inmate. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z With a slight movement of his head, Reginald indicated some white inmates and their visitors talking, as we were, across the room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The guard, it is thought, wields all the power, but in truth the inmate has power too. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had just decided to approach the next guy who was still out when an inmate called to me from his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That was disheartening, just another suggestion that psychology, admittedly far from curing inmates, even had trouble describing what was wrong with them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early years of this punishment, the water—which could be icy cold in winter—was released all at once upon the naked inmate, delivering a terrible shock. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The other inmates prepared to kill themselves by detonating the dynamite, but before they could light the fuse, they were apprehended. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z These reverberations of gangland strife at Rikers, plus the huge size of the galleries, the constant turnover of inmates and, especially, officers, ensured there was no chance of cozy community developing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Stone told me that when he had worked at Green Haven, among the inmates had been a father, his grandfather, and his son. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One is the willingness of courts to hear inmates’ lawsuits against states. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The film, starring state COs, was a primer on how not to let inmates manipulate you for their own ends and make a fool or a criminal out of you. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For family visits, inmates and visitors had to be on opposite sides of the mesh interior wall; they spoke to one another through the wires of the mesh. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In the silence, then, I realized I wasn’t alone: There were inmates sprawled across the floor, sleeping. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No sleep was there: the inmate was walking restlessly from wall to wall; and again and again he sighed while I listened. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “All inmates out on the gallery on R-and-W without a reason, return to your cells!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Newly freed inmates streamed out the front gate. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Boxcar and another inmate went to look for a second car, taking White with them. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The Box held only around thirty inmates, a fraction of those who were under disciplinary restriction. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Three hostages, eighty-five inmates, and one state trooper were wounded. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a bad temper, he admitted, telling how last week he had drawn his baton on an inmate in the tunnel leading up from Tappan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Smuggling to prisoners was the guards’ sideline; every prison’s inmates know that’s how guards make most of their living. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The majority of these inmates are young men of color from New York City. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One OJT who’d been at Clinton briefly told me an officer there had recently shot an inmate’s finger off, presumably while aiming for something more meaty. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Feliciano, as we stood next to each other in lineup one day, murmured, “You know that inmate who attacked Pitkin? Turns out he’s the cousin of my friend’s girlfriend.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As Harper no doubt knew, Sing Sing’s Monday morning quarterbacks had decided that he should never have pursued the inmate into the crowded yard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But neither was it to make the inmates like me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The inmates in them have minimal contact with each other and practically no relationship at all with their guards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had already guarded the next inmate that morning, during a one-on-one interview with a caseworker in her office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While incarcerated, he went through drug and alcohol rehabilitation, got his GED, and taught GED classes to other inmates for twenty-five dollars a month. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A jury-rigged burner and pot also looked inspired by, if not commandeered from, inmate facilities. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An inmate with three years in concentration camps behind him. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z This situation was a complete turning of the tables between officer and inmate— payback time to the highest degree. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Riots have almost always been the result of poor prison administration or operation, not inmate knowledge of our top secret aikido grips. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the day, St. George sat at a desk facing the door to a stairwell and argued with inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The majority of entries described inmates snoring, lying on their sides, and turning over. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate, once “written up,” faced three or four days of constant confinement until his hearing, and then possibly weeks or months more if the Adjustment Committee agreed that he was guilty. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the galleries are all locked down at night, mainly her job is to check, every hour or so, that every inmate is still breathing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Early in his career, Kirkley related, while patrolling on a walkway inside a prison, he was jumped by five hooded inmates, who took his wallet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His interview concluded, the inmate left the room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To my surprise, however, the sergeant who signed the ticket did not have the inmate keeplocked pending his hearing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw in the people who arrested him and processed him at the courthouse, even in other inmates at the jail, a contempt that he'd never experienced before. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But I had connected with Larson better than I did with most inmates, and I wanted to know more. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates were mad to see women—any women—and this route was more likely to gratify. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance with the place and its inmates. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Apart from inmates smoking in their cells, smoking was generally forbidden indoors. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A gate swung open at the gallery’s end, and the inmates began to return from breakfast. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Violence and the potential for violence were a stress on inmates and officers, but not on all of them, and not all the time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This Sunday morning—8/24/97—there was a wad of bloodstained inmate clothing and sneakers stuffed into a corner of the office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate had been telling me that the farther north you went in the prison system, the less talking there was between officers and inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When we arrived at the cell, Brereton was fierce to the inmate: “Collect your bag! Put your shoes on! We’re leaving now!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Upstate, an inmate who spoke a wrong word to a female officer quickly regretted it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If all the inmates in these institutions were let free, they could populate a small city. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It had started when Harper and other officers were doing random pat-frisks of inmates headed out the yard door. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He found himself watching the body language of the guards, of the other inmates, searching for a clue to the bad thing that was going to happen, as he was certain that it would. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Feliciano held his handcuff chain and walked the man toward the opposite wall, where the windows had been broken by the inmate with the mop handle. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Guards could win admission to college if they caught an inmate trying to escape—an incentive system that ambitious guards seized upon. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z So instead, he addressed all the inmates of Auburn in September 1913, a day before joining them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So,” he continued, “it is a nightmare. Most of these one hundred thousand inmates will probably die without ever knowing whether they have MDR-TB or not.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z This announcement over the PA always signaled the first inmate release of the day, and it was a small and easy one. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “When they have been in the past and we have learned of that, we have arrested them. “And inmates don’t run this place—officers do. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We learned that if you could get hold of an inmate’s hand or wrist, several inventive ways of twisting it would drop him to the floor with you on top. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the reforms of the 1970s and early 1980s, inmate death in jails and prisons was still a serious problem. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The nurse, noting that the slashes were only superficial, just had the inmate stick his arms out through the bars so she could clean them up and put on antiseptic and bandages. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When the inmates returned from chow around eight-thirty, I saw several more I was familiar with. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He told me about a few of his inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like an inmate, she was dependent upon me for everything. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z More than five thousand Tule Lake inmates gathered outside the administrative area to peacefully support the negotiating committee. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The inmate being ratted out was difficult and disrespectful, so I didn’t mind passing the tip along to a sergeant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet, if a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it would have claimed hundreds of inmates’ lives. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there was the complicated matter of minority officers recognizing new inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The job, we heard over and over, amounted to care, custody, and control: We gave the orders, in accordance with the rules, and inmates were to follow them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words: one inmate stabbed, assailant unknown, knife not found; three homemade knives found; no officers hurt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you ever turn your back on an inmate,” he scolded me fiercely. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A milder state of emergency, Code Blue, called for ceasing all inmate movement and locking down the whole jail. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With Eveillard, I stopped at a table where a young woman in a red dress had left her chair and was sitting in the lap of the inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the battle against lust required constant oversight: I had to order the same woman off the inmate’s lap an hour later. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Vivid to me, and a seeming conundrum, was the refusal of my inmate to submit to a strip-frisk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the camps, the young inmates were guarded by police officers, soldiers, and freshly recruited Hitler Youth leaders. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z These really bad dreams have usually involved scenarios in which I—and some-times my family—get attacked by inmates or other criminals, usually with a knife. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Any day in there, I might find myself in a situation where I’d need Officer X to watch my back, to pry a homicidal inmate off of me, at his peril. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, with recreation having been called, most inmates off the gallery, and things settled down, I went to find my disobedient porter and lock him into his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some inmates— particularly because it would involve a second strip-search—were expected to resist. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As we chatted, he told me about a softball game he’d witnessed in which inmates from the two opposing teams went after each other with the bats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Gaines, a black officer so big that he seldom seemed to have to raise his voice, had traded words with an inmate who tried to cadge extra juice from under his nose. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z White shook hands with both inmates, who were then led away to their cells. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The inmates loved waffles and sometimes went to great lengths to acquire more than their share. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the inmates, the lower floor is known as The Hole—the place to which difficult prisoners, the “hardrock” troublemakers, are now and then banished. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z We pointed toward their choice of seating—either the tables, which were surrounded by four plastic chairs, or rows of chairs near the window, where they could sit next to an inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the inmates had been leaning against their bars, talking; they stopped when I came into view. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For weeks, it seemed, he had sported a big shiner, courtesy of an inmate he’d angered, who one day had marched straight into Rufino’s tiny office and popped him in the eye. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I would hear inmates utter these exact words several times more in the upcoming months at Sing Sing, a threat disguised as advice. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates came to recognize me from my time in B-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The prison rules are that visitors must be listed on the inmate’s permission list. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Phelan grabbed the keys from the guy’s belt, strode over to the inmate’s cell door, unlocked it, and flung it open with a bang. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever he found someone extremely frail—a “Muselman” was what we called those inmates—he would write down his number: good for the crematorium. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d taken an inmate’s junk outside his cell, piled it on the flats, and were searching the remaining contents one piece at a time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly all of the garbage was buried beneath old yellow foam pads that used to serve as the innards for the inmates’ mattresses. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The real test, I knew, would come upon the inmates’ return from mess hall, when they’d have to do something they were never keen on doing: lock back in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an unfortunate way to start the day, since sometimes one inmate’s hostility seemed to spread, through a form of osmosis, to those who hadn’t even witnessed any altercation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At midmorning, Officer Birch told me it was time for the lock- down inmates’ interviews with the mental-health staff, and he handed me a ring of keys. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But I persisted, and in five minutes maybe half the inmates had disappeared from the gallery, presumably into their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the fact of the matter was, inmates were almost never that organized. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The main feeling was that inmates were like a contagion—and the more you kept a professional distance, the better off you’d be. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A few cells down, to my amazement, a young Latino inmate was out on the gallery cutting an older man’s hair with electric clippers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Smith crunched him against a wall, and a shelf of the inmate’s books came tumbling down in the process. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My radio squawked, as it often did, and the inmate glanced back at me nervously. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Fourteen months after that, he was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate at Leavenworth penitentiary. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z On Long Island in 1997, an inmate who annoyed his guards by calling out for methadone died of a ruptured spleen after two of them beat him in his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "But how? Only a few men in the whole country possess the knowledge —" "Then one of them is an inmate of a semi-madhouse," the vet said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I peered around the corner and saw them massing in two huge piles, evidently on top of inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Three newly arrived inmates were placed in a holding cell near us, awaiting their issue of clothing, and one started watching Davis. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew I would see the inmate when he got to the center gate, so I hurried ahead to answer it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One is the all-metal interior, containing the inmates; it’s painted gray and looks as though it could have been welded in a shipyard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the table next to the games, an older man sold hand-painted greeting cards for all occasions to raise money for the Jaycees, one of Sing Sing’s “approved inmate organizations.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them had to do with the upcoming inmate Jaycee rap contest. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that the pressures weren’t understandable to Testo; he knew, he said, that inmates were “the lowest of the low, the scum of the earth. And we have to be with them every day.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Essentially, my job was to make sure they didn’t do anything to threaten security, such as drop tools to inmates or leave out dangerous equipment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had the inmate against the wall and properly told him to take everything out of his pockets and hand it over. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Blessed be the Almighty . . The voice of the officiating inmate had just become audible. At first I thought it was the wind. “Blessed be God’s name . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Huge re-sources are diverted as a result: California, where prisons are already at double capacity, must build a new prison every year to keep up with the flood of new inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The narrow space outside the cells was stuffed with inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The only complaint I ever heard from officers was that inmates’ weight equipment was much better than what was provided to officers in the small weight room in the Administration Building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This huge room was filled morning, afternoon, and evening with inmates, and my day shift spanned two of those times. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dell was too afraid to work with prison inmates and so he set his sights on the public school system. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Greene had advised me not to shine my flashlight into inmates’ faces while they slept but rather just to aim it at the ceiling or the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never seen an inmate cower so, and for good reason: Phelan’s stance said he was ready to take the man’s head off. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An inmate reaches over and takes STEVE’S meat with a fork. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z My uncle took each letter and promised the inmate that they would be delivered. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I was back on R-and-W gallery, which I had learned was known as a porter gallery, because so many of its inmates worked somewhere in the prison as porters. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Several longtime inmates I spoke with thought it was almost a thing of the past—for several reasons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But their troubles were just beginning, because the yard is, in many ways, like the mess hall: a place where many inmates come together, and passions are easily inflamed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day, a few thousand inmates passed the camp’s gate and did not return. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The real action was on the gallery looking after inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The men’s locker room—I’ve never seen the women’s—is itself nearly abandoned; though it’s stuffed with a hodgepodge of some two hundred lockers of inmate manufacture, fewer than twenty are actively used. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all of them, he seemed the most sought after by inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In every block, the inmates prepared for the journey ahead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z An inmate-grievance system had been instituted after the Attica riot; Sing Sing inmates typically filed about twenty-five grievances a week against the administration, but recently that number had gone as high as seventy-five. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The response from inmates is coming in more slowly. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Most other procedures had to be followed to the letter, many of them having to do with not opening more than one gate at a time, to ensure the strictest control over inmate movement. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Feliciano told this inmate not to turn around, then drew his baton and held it in ready position across his torso, what was called port-arms position. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t hard to imagine the hopelessness the inmates felt. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z These are mas-sive human warehouses, two of the largest prison housing units in the world, containing over a thousand inmates between them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If I understood the talk, an officer could “mistakenly” deadlock the cell of an intransigent inmate just long enough to make him miss his morning or afternoon recreation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re pretty much down to the bare minimum. We have trouble finding things for all the inmates to do—there are only programs for three or four hundred men.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Antisocial personality, though it described plenty of guys on R-and-W, seemed also to serve as a catchall for problem inmates who couldn’t otherwise be categorized. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the sixty-some inmates who lived on the gallery, fifty must have been out of their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The largest contingent consisted of gym porters, and because many were longtime inmates and there was power in numbers, they were especially demanding. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Each “house” had three floors and, greatest blessing of all, each inmate had his own room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And perhaps the sex was not only between inmates and female officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You get your meals through a slot, you do not see other inmates, and you never touch or get near another human being. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z After working near one congenial-seeming inmate for a long time, he’d become so comfortable talking to him that he’d confided to the inmate about some problems at home and a shortness of cash. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I liked Michaels for acknowledging the inmates’ humanity. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Baywatch wouldn’t talk to officers, but his presence was widely accepted by inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that Scarff had experienced some of the same intoxicating rush that the inmates had felt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Smith melded toughness with an attitude of respect for his inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There are sounds of inmates yelling from cell to cell: much of it is obscene. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, up the tunnel from B-block, a long succession of officers and handcuffed inmates came into view. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, there was one difference between him and the inmates, I thought darkly as I tried to calm us both down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I started investigating the case, inmates at the jail told me they saw officers beating Mr. Ruffin before taking him to an isolation cell. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It’s not a bad job, and if an inmate does die, it’s no problem—unless he’s found with rigor mortis. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The wiry man in his late twenties was Harper, an evening-shift officer who had been injured by inmates in the yard during an incident the week before. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Other inmates paid up to five packs of cigarettes for one of these little works of art. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the prison’s inmates seemed bad through and through, the devil born in them. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He was speaking, of course, of the young inmates in Coxsackie, most of them violent repeat offenders. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A pudgy inmate whose nickname, I would later learn, was Rerun finally spoke. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Within an hour, rumors were circulating among our class that DiPaola had been the one who let the inmate out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The remaining inmates entered their cells, and the gallery was clear. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That cry usually occasioned a dozen mirrors thrust out of cells so that inmates could get a good look at her. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An hour or so later, when I made an inmate return an extra helping of bacon that Cueball had bestowed, he glared at me anew and pointed at the inmate I had stopped. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This would be done one cell at a time and one inmate at a time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When he arrived at the city jail badly bruised and bleeding, Mr. Ruffin told the other inmates that he had been beaten terribly and was desperately in need of his inhaler and asthma medication. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The only other way I ever saw an inmate get to Marcy was by making a credible threat. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To the consternation of his many political enemies, and certainly Auburn’s guards, Osborne used his charisma and the credibility earned as an “inmate” to put this system into effect. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Into this area, which generally had the greatest concentration of inmates, ran the inmate fleeing the pat-frisk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The guard is mainstream society’s last representative; the inmate, its most marginal man. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For years, Angola—a slave plantation before the end of the Civil War—forced inmates to work in the fields picking cotton. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As we walked back into the building, a tiny folded bundle of paper dropped at our feet; it was an inmate’s tobacco envelope, which had somehow fallen en route to a neighbor’s window over-head. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked, and he shushed me—rightly: He didn’t want inmates to know anything about him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The women inmates spent most of their days sheltered under the shade of this tree while the boats glided up and down and up again on the other side of the prison gate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Every longtime officer seemed to have witnessed a wife arriving when an inmate’s girlfriend was already there, or vice versa. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like many inmates, he’s in excellent shape from weight lifting. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z B-block was refurbished and reopened as a “transit block,” supposedly holding inmates for limited times. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Other inmates slumped listlessly, staring at the floor or the ceiling, but Richard always had the same quality of alertness. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Write the inmate a ticket for disobeying a direct order? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time we’d descended to the first floor, the inmates had become very quiet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many sergeants and officers, and certainly most inmates, were glad she was going. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates celebrated when Barack Obama won, but their enthusiasm faded quickly. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z One inmate had wanted to cut off his ring finger, he said, because it was too swollen for the inmate to remove his wedding band, but another inmate had talked him out of it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His transfer of powers of self-determination to inmates provoked loud and repeated charges of coddling. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A high percentage of the Norfolk Prison Colony inmates went in for “intellectual” things, group discussions, debates, and such. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I decided I would do just that, but then I remembered the more pressing matter of inmates still outside their cells who were claim-ing to be porters. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the mesh we could see a lot of inmates milling around, apparently arriving on the gallery via some other entrance. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa pulled her away, but when they stopped, Hanako looked back to see several inmates being savagely beaten, one with a baseball bat, by guards. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z On the TV screen, we watched as another unsuspecting officer opened a cell and was coldcocked by an inmate; he crumpled to the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I would be spending brief periods on a gallery but would also have a lot of time off, accompanying inmates to the mess hall and, later, to the commissary or package room or school building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By now, only a few inmates were out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To an inmate with the extra juice, I began to say, “Drink it here.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It took me a while, but I eventually got my bachelor’s degree from a college that mails the coursework to inmates at my prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He told us that he had reinstituted assigned seating in the mess halls, so that inmates couldn’t sit wherever they wanted. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In some cases, maybe this led to officer and inmate being too close. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, a porter—he gestured toward a young inmate cleaning the children’s play area—had written a love letter for him in Spanish. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One inmate was thronged by three little kids the moment he left our desk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A third inmate waited until the beating was done and the victim was motionless before reaching down with a knife and cutting his face from ear to ear, right across his nose. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Another reason to stay alert was that, instead of a disintegrating relationship, an inmate might have an extra one. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the real revelation came in one tight corridor when our group passed an inmate group of nearly equivalent size. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Word about the hunger strike spread to the other women behind bars, and soon thirty other inmates from the District Jail and the Occoquan Workhouse joined the effort. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Not all inmates can be helped, but some can, and it’s foolish to let them languish. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew the inmates, and the inmates knew him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of them were engaged in shouted conversation with inmates down on the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And, in the day’s most interesting incident, he argued with an inmate who came in after working in the mess hall with his shirt stuffed with stolen food. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, the prison was using the building as a shop to manufacture plastic garbage bags, but as late as 1943, it still housed inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were several times every day when inmates, if they were or-ganized, could take over most of a prison, he said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As you can imagine, especially in a prison where there was heavy emphasis on rehabilitation, an inmate was smiled upon if he demonstrated an unusually intense interest in books. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate then tossed all the juice at Gaines, drenching his uniform. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The 150 or so inmates gathered there were suddenly shouting, running, in disarray. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was designed to house low-risk inmates in dormitory complexes rather than cell blocks. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z From small starter fires, inmates had been throwing out boxes and sheets of newspaper and Lord knows what else, trying to achieve the fuel density necessary for a real blaze. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A custodian who later worked under him recalled, “The Warden was strict with the inmates but would never stand for any mistreatment or heckling of them.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z To let inmates know they’d better be dressed and decent, female officers always yelled, “Female on the gallery!” before setting out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate offered to help him out by paying him a hundred dollars just to bring in a package from his brother. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time we let the inmates back out, someone else is attacked, violence flaring up like one of those trick birthday candles. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had the dubious honor of being its first inmate—got to see them build the Mess Hall brick by brick. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z And the inmates were not badly fed—only slightly worse than we had been at the Academy. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As the Justice Policy Institute has observed, “the Clinton Administration’s ‘tough on crime’ policies resulted in the largest increases in federal and state inmate populations of any president in American history.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z An inmate, perhaps surrounded by empty gas cans, stooping to light a match. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As W had headed to chow, Miller said, he’d noticed an inmate, W-9, holding his face, trying to hide blood that was coming out from under his hand. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been pileups of officers and inmates; Scarff had recovered a shank. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, when I escorted some inmates to the commissary and we were all hanging around in the hall waiting for a gate to open, two female officers fixed their attention on Sam. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What she saw was a lot of inmates out of their cells when they weren’t supposed to be, hanging out mainly in anticipation of rec. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Raufs interrogators have one goal: to make inmates suffer as much as possible before they die. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I caught more glimpses of the humanity of inmates on V-gallery than anywhere else at Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The hospital’s previous building for mental illness had burned down when an inmate set it on fire, so patients were closely watched to make sure they didn’t cause trouble. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Mrs. Menzer returned, and when she herded us out of the lab and into her shiny black BMW downstairs, we marched like inmates. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Now, however, though the code of silence is still nominally in place, inmate lips seem looser and officers’ use of snitches more widespread. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, to simulate pulling together the arms of a struggling inmate in order to handcuff him behind his back, I squeezed together a pair of calipers representing fifty pounds of resistance. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Birch dropped by, warning me that many sergeants objected to officers playing games with inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed a file of inmates, all dressed in baggy pants, ragged coats, and caps, gray faces in dim light; one had one of the most crooked noses I’d ever seen. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I envy her as she puts on her coat: She’s going home and doesn’t have to deal with the inmates any longer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He even slept through the day’s only excitement, when an inmate down the hall managed to cut both his wrists with the blade from a disposable razor he’d somehow smuggled in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates kept their eyes down as they did the scut work, emptying ashtrays and wiping the urine from toilets. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You could hear the report as the tower guards fired the gas gun, and then watch inmates disperse as the clouds of tear gas drifted toward the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the inmates at Pontiac Correctional Center called Charlie Mahan Wolfie, because they thought his eyes looked like the Wolfman’s. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Popish described having seen the baton of a CO who came face-to-face with a shank-wielding inmate; the baton had a large slice cut out of it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, I was told, there were some three hundred inmates in the yard and four officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As they subdued him, the inmate next door started screaming out, berating the tough officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirty or forty keeplocks were due back from rec, and we had just heard an announcement to clear the galleries of all other inmates in anticipation of this return. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The team was preparing to go in after an inmate named Duncan, who had refused to cooperate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly one in five prison and jail inmates has a serious mental illness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She laughs for a second and says, “No, the inmate’s ID number. Who are you here to see?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He had learned whatever he knew by just asking the inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As the two inmates approached the entryway in shackles, White walked toward them. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A training officer named Hill told us that our job would be unusually difficult, because “OJTs irritate inmates.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Half the inmates seem to have been stabbed or shot at some point in their lives. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Arson is serious because an inmate could burn a whole building down, maybe one with people in it,” said Kirkley. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Larson, I already knew, had talked about me to other inmates; twice in the past week inmates I didn’t know had asked me whether it was true I had a Ph.D. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Another day, I saw her infuriate some inmates on R-gallery north, just above her office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I—I don’t—” The surrealness of being made to feel unworthy by a prison inmate set in, preventing Dill from finishing his thought. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z A sergeant who was unaware of all of this approached me with a copy of the inmate’s grievance letter in the mess hall at lunchtime that same day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z These all look like signs that inmates, though segregated in prison, still considered themselves a part of mainstream society in some way. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some inmates, for example, would try to flush something huge, like a bedsheet, in hopes it might foul up the entire block’s plumbing or allow them to flood the gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1869, after a huge riot involving several hundred inmates in which many inmates and one officer were killed, a law was passed prohibiting its further use. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate took one hand off the wall and began to repeat the phrase but was immediately jumped by the frisking officer and several others. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of these serious infractions, regardless of the disposition, resulted in a five-dollar charge to the inmate’s account. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked out to the exercise courtyard, where these inmates were placed in large chain-link cages to exercise several at a time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The next one displayed inmate weapons: a sharpened piece of Plexiglas, a filed-down serving spoon, a metal spike. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A few inmates were still out but, much more ominous, Wickersham was now at Robinson’s end gate, talking into his radio. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes inmates would intentionally spill something on a seat they did not wish to occupy or tell the officer that a friend in line was coming to take it “in just a second.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It had also happened that a visitor wearing a double layer of clothes left one layer in the bathroom for his inmate friend. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As we walked along the dimly lit gallery, he challenged one inmate after another. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Take as simple a matter as saying “Good morning” to an inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mutual Welfare League-style reforms threatened the entrenched power of certain inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was his personal message to inmates and, actually, a pretty good summary of the booklet itself. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But an inmate down the gallery was waving his arm out between the bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Guards who tried to crack down on inmate drug use were subject to death threats—purportedly by corrupt officers, according to one guard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z How could you ever trust an inmate enough to drink his coffee? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When another inmate appeared, walking down the flats, the porter attacked him, first breaking the broom handle over his head and then trying to gouge his face with the splintered ends. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In it, an inmate could try to reconnect to the real world and prior life, could try to salve the wound of imprisonment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d been taught that worrying about inmates’ concerns was tantamount to pandering, that it almost demeaned an officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Blood coagulates on the ground, and to the side I see about eight or ten inmates hauling bodies into the back of a truck. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Whether I was an officer or inmate was unclear, but it suddenly dawned on me, as I sat in my cell, that I’d missed the twenty-four-hour deadline for appealing the charges against me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From Saturday evening until Monday morning, inmates were locked in their cells; this was the keepers’ only time off. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Married inmates on good behavior were eligible to stay there every few months. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates seemed to be running the prison, not the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We placed handcuffs and leg irons on our inmate, helped him into the van, and passed back through the sally port to the outside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then you can,” I told the inmate, opening the same brake Blaine had so labored to close moments before. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The regime he imposed was draconian: He subtracted the labor that kept Pennsylvania’s inmates occupied during the day in their cells, as well as the opportunity they had for daily exercise. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But Smith waved at me to join in a conversation he’d started with one of the few inmates left in his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the inmates on a gallery, keeplocks were the hardest to deal with. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While in prison, Robert Chambliss penned a handwritten letter on Kilby Correctional Facility’s inmate stationery to the pastor of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He pointed out another woman, this one pregnant, accompanied by a small child and looking very happy to see her inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course it’s a crack house,” said the inmate in the passenger seat next to me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Prisons in our country sow a lot of racial hatred, both inmate-to-inmate and between inmate and officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hungry inmates emerged up and down the gallery, closing the cell gates behind them in a chorus of metal-on-metal thumps. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates’ protests, though they had a patina of moral force, only hardened my resolve. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the inmates’ surface bluster, their cruelty and selfishness, was almost always something ineffably sad. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The governor pardoned twenty-six of the inmates, and the experiment was abandoned. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard him yelling at me from the shower cell as I went to unlock the other inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And now the OIC was on the PA system, telling all gallery officers that inmates were on the go-back, and to open their end gates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since my inmates would soon be leaving, there was no longer any point in trying to clear the galleries, which was both a humiliation and a relief. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The next inmate, a tall skittish man, went along without a problem. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten blocks of inmates would be evacuated every day. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Cameras had shown him throwing things at officers and egging on other inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The concentration-camp inmates who were not killed upon arrival were slowly worked to death. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The inmate had sprinted for the gate, but Stone had caught him and found ... a “16 in. shank.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sing Sing is unusual for a large max in that it has few vocational or other programs for inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Condemned inmates have limited opportunity for exercise or visitation and are held in disturbingly close proximity to the electric chair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She introduced Brave Orchid to each inmate in the ward—her daughters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But he now seemed as excited as the inmates had been. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Anna, looking back on this terrifying time in her school years, commented bitterly that “the vigilant hawks of the Stalin regime...converted the whole great country into a big concentration camp of life-term inmates.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z An inmate moving from one cell to another often had big garbage bags full of property to carry; you didn’t help him with it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not saying a word, Smith moved closer and closer, acting as a party to the conversation and entering the inmate’s personal space until he stepped back in frustration. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Or I’d say an inmate couldn’t have an extra plate for his salad, that he had to fit everything on one plate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The guards gave each other high fives, the inmate trusties walked away silently, and Joe sat motionlessly in his chair in the middle of the room, looking down at his feet. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In 2008, Wes and many of his fellow inmates followed the presidential campaign closely, hoping for the election of the first black president in American history. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The colored people in Auburn felt that they could not possibly support an institution which took its inmates in free of charge, and so began to charge an admittance fee. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He jerked the reins, his eyes twinkling, as more cries came up from the irate inmates as they tried to disentangle their bodies in the carriage and settle themselves on the seats once more. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z While I was at it, an inmate porter stopped by and pleaded on behalf of the cooker. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some became trustees, mentors, and advocates against violence among inmates. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The beginning of the end for Hulbert came on a night when, three hours before a scheduled 5 A.M. execution, two inmates es-caped from another part of the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That day, however, Billings and I had only one inmate to transport, a Mexican who had a deportation hearing at an immigration court inside the Downstate Correctional Facility, about an hour’s drive away. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This would mean that the Colony had a total of around 1200 inmates. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I put pen and pad, inmate rulebook, and blue union diary in my breast pockets, slide my baton through the ring, lock the padlock, and slam the locker door. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was “serving a life sentence for murder, when a new inmate walked into the shower room one day and stared at his face. “ Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Two inmate trusties who had been mopping the floor stopped to watch the officers struggle with the wheelchair and the cage. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I supposed it was contraband because of the ease with which it could start a fire, trip the cell’s circuit breaker, burn the inmate, or burn someone the inmate didn’t like. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he hated us, maybe he hated that inmate, maybe he didn’t know what he hated, but eventually the pile caught fire. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The first man I met in prison who made any positive impression on me whatever was a fellow inmate, “Bimbi.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmates would soon be rushing outside to the yard, hopping mad and “looking for the first uniform they can find” to beat up. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Frustrated that I’d missed it, I paced the floor, locked my inmates behind another gate, and waited for some news. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z African Americans made up 56 percent of the inmate population, Hispanics comprised another 32 percent, and whites around 10 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course it’s possible that the inmate had nothing to do with it. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It was quiet there, and clean; the inmates were carefully controlled, and there wasn’t much for a CO to do. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, the officer driving a van that ferries disabled inmates and others around Sing Sing jumped out and helped subdue the man. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If the inmate hadn’t been greedy, I thought, he might have got-ten away with it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Weight lifting was also popular, and when I was new at Sing Sing, it was intimidating to be faced with the huge, muscle-bound inmates who took it seriously. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, he had stopped an inmate passing through the gate and asked to see what he was carrying. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawes’s children knew the inside of the prison from movies they watched there, and the inmates who worked in his house as cooks, cleaners, and handymen knew his family. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Our party was delaying the inmates’ lunch, but strangely there were no complaints: The departure of Cradle, which they now must have apprehended, was an occasion of moment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days, following breakfast, the B-block inmates bound for programs in various other parts of the prison were allowed to congregate on Q-north prior to being released from the block in smaller, escorted groups. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The new hospital was specially equipped, and Dr. Stevens himself had studied under the man who pioneered the technique, which had been perfected on the colored inmates of a Boston asylum. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Are you coming to protect me from the inmates of the asylum, Imogen?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Key West was so broke that they let the inmates go home for supper because it was cheaper. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Yellow lines on the floor indicated traffic patterns for inmates, telling them where to line up and where to wait. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The block’s keeplock officer, instead of borrowing my keys and ushering the inmates to their cells, called, “They’re back,” when he came through the gate and then disappeared. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a sizable number of well-read inmates, especially the popular debaters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In the afternoon, we learned more about the inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrote also with great pleasure of her brother’s being an inmate of Mr. Darcy’s house, and mentioned with raptures some plans of the latter with regard to new furniture. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z One does not touch the other: Should an inmate somehow escape from his cell, he’s still trapped inside the building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Typically during a cell search, one officer did the searching while another stood with the inmate outside the cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You could tell that Great Meadow was tighter than Sing Sing; every time this nervous inmate addressed me, even as I was performing the strip-frisk, he called me sir. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It took weeks for an inmate in the general population to get an appointment with a therapist, and the wait between appointments, once a relationship had been established, also seemed to be weeks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmer and Goldfarb were allies in wanting as much as possible for treating inmates. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I watched as he gave four waffles apiece to two inmates in a row. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, when Hanako tried to go to school, she saw inmates being teargassed as they walked through the barracks. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z How the third inmate got involved, Allen didn’t know. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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