A quick Google search of Bauer's name would have revealed that he was an investigative reporter, but CCA either didn't know or didn't care he was hired quickly to be a prison guard at Winn Correctional Center in northern Louisiana.īauer writes that he first got hint of a problem almost immediately after he started the training program for his new job. The second-biggest private prison company in America, CCA operates nearly 100 correctional facilities across the country. In 2014, Bauer applied for a job with the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which has since rebranded itself as CoreCivic. American Prison is both the remarkable story of a journalist who spent four months working as a corrections officer, and a horrifying exposé of how prisoners were treated by a corporation that profited from them. So journalist Shane Bauer, a reporter for Mother Jones magazine, decided the only way to find out what life inside a private prison was like was to get a job at one.
It can be tough to know what goes on behind prison walls - and private corrections companies are especially reluctant to open up to outsiders. How?Īmericans like to think of our country as the land of the free - but that's not the case for everyone: More than 2 million Americans are in jails or prisons in the U.S. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title American Prison Subtitle A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment Author Shane Bauer
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