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American prison shane bauer sparknotes6/19/2023 “I kept going further and further back until I realized I needed to start at the foundation of this country and trace the story of profit in the American prison system from there,” Bauer told the PBS NewsHour. During the four months that reporter Shane Bauer spent undercover as a guard for Louisiana’s Winn Correctional Center, he used covert recording devices to catch eye-popping quotes from inmates and authorities, and took copious notes from inside the walls of the facility run by one of the industry’s biggest corporations.īut before that reporting became the basis of “American Prison,” a full-length book on the for-profit prison system, Bauer wrote an exposé about his experience for “Mother Jones.” At that point, he sensed there was more of the story to tell.
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