Bibliograph

American prison, a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment, by Shane Bauer

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American prison, a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment, by Shane Bauer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American prison

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1057732192

Responsibility statement

by Shane Bauer

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.

Sub title

a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment

Summary

In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. In this book, Bauer discusses his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. A blistering indictment of the private prison system, and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America

Target audience

general

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