The Resource American prison : a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment, Shane Bauer
American prison : a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment, Shane Bauer
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- Summary
- "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. IIn 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 351 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates
- Isbn
- 9780735223585
- Label
- American prison : a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment
- Title
- American prison
- Title remainder
- a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment
- Statement of responsibility
- Shane Bauer
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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. IIn 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"--
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- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bauer, Shane
- Dewey number
- 365/.973
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV9471
- LC item number
- .B384 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Prisons
- Imprisonment
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
- Imprisonment
- Prisons
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- American prison : a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment, Shane Bauer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographic references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1023858600
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 351 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates
- Isbn
- 9780735223585
- Lccn
- 2018018293
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1023858600
- Label
- American prison : a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment, Shane Bauer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographic references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1023858600
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 351 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates
- Isbn
- 9780735223585
- Lccn
- 2018018293
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1023858600
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