Top Highlights

• The Quakers’ goals were prevention of further harm to society, deterrence, and, by the early nineteenth century, encouragement of prisoners to engage in “penitent reflection,” which could result in their personal reformation.
• “Newjack tells the straight skinny on a guard’s life inside prison
• “A devastating chronicle of the toll prison takes on the prisoners and the keepers of the keys.”
• the point of view of the officers who spend eight hours a day doing time, hoping and praying that they make it home that night, hoping and praying that the job allows them to remain human.”
• you don’t want to advertise that you’re a correction officer: Too many people around you have been in prison. Officers tend not to stick the big badge decals they pass out at the Academy on their car windows (because they like their windows), and most, like me, don’t want to walk the street wearing a uniform. It’s just awkward. A locker lets you le...