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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Shane Bauer
4.23/5 (10264 ratings)
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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; In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with 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. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
351 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0735223580
ISBN13:
9780735223585
kindle Asin:
B079WMZ1XN

American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Shane Bauer
4.23/5 (10264 ratings)
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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; In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with 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. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
351 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0735223580
ISBN13:
9780735223585
kindle Asin:
B079WMZ1XN

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