![]() I also had to rebuild the mental capacity to make choices. It was difficult for me to filter out what was important from the constant background noise of daily life. “The free world is infinitely complex, and for a while it all came at me in a jumble. Of his disorienting re-entry into freedom, he writes: It’s also an in-depth history of American convict labor and the rise of private prisons since Colonial times-and how outsourced incarceration has grown over time into a huge business.īauer’s risky enterprise into life as a corrections officer was partly informed by his experiences as a prisoner in Iran for more than two years. As Bauer outlines in painstaking detail, Winn Correction exemplifies what happens when the profit motive bumps up against demands of justice, the need to jail violent offenders and the challenges of effective rehabilitation.Īmerican Prison aims to be several different things, including a first-person undercover account of what it feels like to guard a general population in a for-profit prison. Like many other such institutions, it’s a for-profit institution. ![]() Winn is not a federal penitentiary or state-run correctional facility. American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishmentįor four months in 2014, investigative reporter Shane Bauer worked as a guard at Winn Correction Center in Louisiana, owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). ![]()
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