He shares his insider account of the private prison system, revealing how these establishments are not incentivized to tend to the health or safety of their inmates. Bauer joins us with excerpts from his book American Prisons: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment to weave a much deeper reckoning with his experiences.
Four months later he had seen enough, and in short order he left to write an exposé that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jone s. There was no meaningful background check, and he used his real name despite his notoriety as an award-winning investigative journalist.
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. On presale for Town Hall Members only until August 2 at 9:00AM.
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