![]() ![]() He first described what he saw in a National Magazine Award-winning article for Mother Jones. NERMEEN SHAIKH: A 3-week nationwide prison strike from coast to coast just ended this month, after prisoners participated in hunger strikes and called for the abolition of what they call “modern-day slavery.”įor more, we’re joined by a journalist who went undercover as a prison guard to document conditions at the Winn correctional facility in Louisiana, run by the Corrections Corporation of America, now called CoreCivic.ĪMY GOODMAN: Shane Bauer is an award-winning senior reporter at Mother Jones. We speak with Shane Bauer in New York City. prisons, from convict labor in colonial-era settlements all the way to present-day mass incarceration, including Bauer’s own stint as an undercover prison guard at the privately owned Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana. Merican Prison.” That’s the name of the new book by award-winning journalist Shane Bauer, who dives deep into the profit-earning motives of U.S. The History of US For-Profit Prisons From Slavery to Today ![]()
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