![]() ![]() Shane Bauer reports in the best way a journalist can: by going into a prison himself. ![]() 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 " American Prison is a searing, page-turning indictment of America's practice of corporate incarceration. "A penetrating exposé on the cruelty and mind-bending corruption of privately run prisons across the United States.Nearly every page of this tale contains examples of shocking inhumanity.A potent, necessary broadside against incarceration in the U.S." - Kirkus, starred review "Deprivation, abuse, and fear oppress inmates and guards alike in this hard-hitting exposé of the for-profit prison industry.A gripping indictment of a bad business." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "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. ![]()
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