American Prison
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New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 One of President
Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 Winner of the Helen Bernstein
Book Award for Excellence in Journalism A New York Times Notable
Book A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of
prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the
course of our country's history. 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
exposé 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.
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. The private prison system is
deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are
not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed
them well, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff.
Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with
their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to
the prison's sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer finds himself
becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the
prison, and he is far from alone. 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.
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