American prison : a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment
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Published
New York City : Penguin Press, [2018].
ISBN
9780735223585, 0735223580, 9780735223608
Status
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
365.973 BAU
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Published
New York City : Penguin Press, [2018].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
351 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780735223585, 0735223580, 9780735223608
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"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; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an expose about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bauer, S. (2018). American prison: a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment . Penguin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bauer, Shane. 2018. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment. Penguin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bauer, Shane. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment Penguin Press, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bauer, Shane. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment Penguin Press, 2018.
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