If anyone can speak on the harrowing experience of prison, it would be him. For two years, he was subjected to a criminal’s lifestyle-solitary confinement & egregious living conditions. What makes this account so fascinating, is that Bauer was once a prisoner himself in Iran for hiking too close to the border. During his time as a CO, Bauer observed the dehumanization of prisoners and a severe lack of regard for their wellbeing. American Prison, written by investigative journalist Shane Bauer, is an expose on the private prison system-a written record of his undercover experience as a prison guard in a Louisiana correctional facility.
There are times in life when you must question the motives of individuals who seek to make profit off of government decreed punishment. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”Īs of 2013, there were an estimated 133,000 prisoners institutionalized in private prisons.
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.
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