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One of Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2018 One of San Francisco Chronicle’s 10 Best Books of 2018 One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2018Featured in Mother Jones’ Favorite Nonfiction of 2018 “American Prison reprises [Bauer’s] page-turning narrative [as reported in Mother Jones], and adds not only the fascinating back story of CCA, the nation’s first private prison company, but also an eye-opening examination of the history of corrections as a profit-making enterprise . . . Bauer is a generous narrator with a nice ear for detail, and his colleagues come across as sympathetic characters, with a few notable exceptions . . . The sheer number of forehead-slapping quotes from Bauer’s superiors and fellow guards alone are worth the price of admission.” —The New York Times Book Review “American Prison is both the remarkable story of a journalist who spent four months working as a corrections officer, and a horrifying exposé of how prisoners were treated by a corporation that profited from them. . . . It’s Bauer’s investigative chops, though, that make American Prison so essential. He dedicated his time at Winn to talking with prisoners and guards, who were unaware that he was a journalist . . . Based on his first-hand experience and these conversations, he paints a damning picture of prisoner mistreatment and under-staffing at the prison, where morale among the incarcerated and the employees was poor. The stories he tells are deeply sad and consistently infuriating . . . An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org “A relentless and uncompromising book, one that takes a crowbar to the private prison industry and yanks hard, letting just enough daylight slip inside to illuminate the contours of the beast . . . The private prison industry is booming once again. To find out what that means for real people—both those who guard and those who are guarded—American Prison is the place to begin.” —San Francisco Chronicle “[Bauer] exposes the extreme inhumanity and myriad abuses perpetrated by the American prison system—problems that effect both prisoners and guards. A terrifying look into one of America’s darkest and deepest ongoing embarrassments.” —LitHub “One of the most incisive — and damning — investigations into prison culture and business in recent memory, Bauer’s illuminating hybrid memoir and sociological study shines much-needed light into some dark corners of the criminal justice system.” —Boston Globe “Riveting . . . Bauer himself was held in an [Iranian] prison for two years, so he knows what it feels like to be on the inside, yet he brings to the text a journalist's purview and draws a direct line between American slavery, the founders of the prison corporations and the job he is hired to do. In a fascinating tightrope walk, Bauer shows that, in this so-called industry, the financial bottom line comes at a high human cost.” —Oprah.com “The searing details of [Bauer’s] time in the Winn facility form the brutal core of his indictment: evidence of systematic cruelty and profiteering that starts to erode the morality of prisoners and guards alike.” —Vulture “A penetrating exposé on the cruelty and mind-bending corruption of privately run prisons across the United States . . . Nearly every page of this tale contains examples of shocking inhumanity . . . A potent, necessary broadside against incarceration in the U.S.” —Kirkus, starred review “Deprivation, abuse, and fear oppress inmates and guards alike in this hard-hitting exposé of the for-profit prison industry . . . A gripping indictment of a bad business.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Bauer’s amazing book examines one of slavery’s toxic legacies, using convicted people to make profit . . . He observes an acutely dangerous and out-of-control environment created by CCA’s profit-driven underpaying of staff and understaffing of prisons. Bauer’s historical and journalistic work should be required reading.” —Booklist “Sometimes the only way to get the full story is to put yourself into it as an ‘immersion journalist.’ Shane Bauer wanted to know more about for-profit prisons so he got a job in one as a correction officer, or guard, and reports his experiences grippingly while weaving in the social and economic factors that give rise to these horrors. His book reveals much that that we didn’t want to know about but, having learned about, can never forget.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed “American Prison is a searing, page-turning indictment of America's practice of corporate incarceration. Shane Bauer reports in the best way a journalist can: by going into a prison himself. But then he connects the dots, drawing a persuasive through-line from plantations worked by slaves, to Southern prison farms, to corporate prisons. With this braid of history and reportage Bauer reveals the criminal nature of private prisons, a world of pain that is also a business. His is a beautiful rage.” —Ted Conover, Pulitzer Prize finalist and director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University
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About the Author
Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting, Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, Atlantic Media's Michael Kelly Award, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, and at least 20 others. Bauer is the co-author, along with Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal, of a memoir, A Sliver of Light, which details his time spent as a prisoner in Iran.
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Product details
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (June 11, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735223602
ISBN-13: 978-0735223608
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.8 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
49 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#88,211 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I got my copy of American Prison last night and literally could not stop reading it until I was finished. Shane Bauer did a heroic job infiltrating a for-profit prison and giving us an inside perspective on one of the most violent and exploitative industries in America.It helps that American Prison is a complete page turner. Get your copy now, before it inevitably gets turned into an award-winning HBO series!
If you are not a consistent reader of "Mother Jones," you may have missed their original expose of conditions inside contemporary for-profit prisons in America. A lot of us should read "American Prison" to learn more about what is being done in (some of) our names.Bauer went undercover, in his own name, as a guard in a for-profit prison operated by CCA (Now CoreCivic). He ties his experience in CCA's Winn Correctional Center into America's century-plus history, primarily but not exclusively in Southern states, of using convict labor to bridge the gap created by the end of slavery. Factor in for-profit prison operators, and you create an environment perfect for the dehumanizing of convicts and correction personnel alike.How does CCA make a profit on contracts that pay as little as $24 per inmate per day? CCA pays guards at its Winn LA facility $9 an hour, less than local burger flippers earn. Guards work for years with no raises but plenty of mandatory overtime because hiring (Even with virtually no minimum competency standards) can't keep up with attrition. Units are consistently understaffed with two guards assigned for upwards of 500 inmates. Social services and mental health programs are virtually non-existent. Medical care? One CCA facility has a 20-hour-per week physician for 1,400 inmates. Education? Rehabilitation?CCA's stock price took a hit when the Obama administration announced it would discontinue using for-profit prisons for federal detention. But investors needn't worry--that price recovered and more the day after Trump was sworn in.The ghastly conditions of plantation prisons--where 1 in 5 convicts died each year--are worse than you thought. And so are the outcomes of for-profit prisons. More violence, more suicides, higher recidivism, more civil rights violations.A sobering look in the prison and corporate hallways most of us will never have directly.
His story of working in the prison is a page turner. But every other chapter is on the history of slaves, freemen both white and black. Descriptions of the working and living conditions were unbelievable. Surely the people of the South can't be proud of that history. I had my doubts about for profit prisons and this book confirms them.
This book is *gripping.* It alternates between Bauer’s undercover work as a guard at a private prison and a fascinating deep-dive into the history of the prison labor system growing out of the slave system. It’s just so well-reported and well-written and so disturbing.I know Shane Bauer through his other book, his reporting for Mother Jones, and his important social media presence. One thing I respect about him is that he’s not afraid to spit out truth even when it’s unpopular or would offend the sensibilities of our time.This book is no different. It takes a deep undercover look at Winn Correctional Center and at the history of prisons for profits in general, but Bauer is just as critical of himself as well, and pulls no punches in describing how his experience participating in the prison system negatively affected him, and the catch-22 he found himself in while trying to navigate an oppressive system he didn’t really buy into but increasingly felt the need to participate in. His honesty is refreshing, and is something (I assume) that anybody who’s socially conscious but has been in a position of authority can relate to.The history of for-profit prisons was raw and intense without being preachy. I think if Bauer was teaching history classes, more students would pay attention.I didn’t read a lot of books this year, but am really glad I read this one. Highly recommended.
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