July 3, 2003

Writer Ted Conover

Writer Ted Conover, JULY 3, 2003

 

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Ted Conover is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. He went to Guantanamo Bay to report on the detention of suspected jihadists and terrorists there. He has written about it in the June 29th edition of The New York Times Magazine, “In the Land of Guantanamo.” Previously, Conover spent a year as a prison guard inside New York State’s infamous Sing Sing prison to experience first hand the conditions within a prison. He wrote about it in his book, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing. Conover also chronicled his time spent with illegal aliens (Coyotes) and railroad hoboes (Rolling Nowhere).