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In 1994 I put in an application to take the next correction-officer exam and, several months later, I sat down with a test booklet in a large room full of people desperate for a job.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

The letter gave each of us two weeks or less to drop these jobs and report to the Albany Training Academy, where we would enter state service as correction-officer recruits.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

From this night onward we were correction-officer trainees of the state of New York, he began, making $23,824 a year.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover