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

by Shane Bauer

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; t

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

368

ISBN

9780735223608