American prison : a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment / Shane Bauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauer, Shane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--United States.

Prisons.

United States.

Imprisonment--United States.

Imprisonment.

Physical Description:

351 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York City : Penguin Press, 2018.

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. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an expose about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. 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..."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bauer, Shane, author. American prison

ISBN:

9780735223585

0735223580

OCLC:

1023858600