American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment - Shane Bauer Audiobook
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Crime
Journalism
Prison
Social Justice
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A groundbreaking 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 exposé 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.
The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or to attract and retain a highly trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison’s sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone.
A blistering indictment of the private prison system and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
September 7th, 2019
Thanks a lot for your sharing.
Thanks again for your another sharing, Nickel and Dimed.
Let me copy what the author of the said non-fiction, Barbara Ehrenreich said about this audiobook.
“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
September 8th, 2019
Add me to the Thanks for these important 2 books.
September 8th, 2019
@Stenka25 and Sancho2, thanks to both of you. I’m kind of on this undercover journalist kick, which is why I posted this one alongside Barbara Ehrenreich and the millennial version of her book about working at Amazon called On the Clock
September 8th, 2019
@Stenka25 and Sancho2, thanks to both of you. I’m kind of on this undercover journalist kick, which is why I posted this one alongside Barbara Ehrenreich’s book as well as a millennial’s take on working at Amazon called On the Clock. I also recommend that one
September 8th, 2019
Many thanks for this and your other excellent uploads, stephjoe100!
I also recommend, John Howard Griffin’s “Black Like Me”:
https://crimeaudio.com/audio-books/black-like-me-john-howard-griffin/
https://crimeaudio.com/audio-books/black-like-me/
one of the first and greatest undercover exposés. There’s a film, too.
September 9th, 2019
@itxlan, Definitely will check that one out. It’s a classic, but don’t think I ever read it.
September 30th, 2019
It was really cool of you to post this! saved me a credit <3
Thank you friend
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