american prison a reporter's undercover journey

APA brokered the deal on behalf of The Bill Clegg Agency. He also co-authored A Sliver of Light, a memoir of his two years as a prisoner in Iran. “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard” was published in the July/August 2016 Mother Jones magazine while American Prison was published last year.īauer has won numerous awards, including The Hillman Prize for Journalism.

“I felt that I could trust them to treat my story and the topic of for-profit prisons with the weight and care it deserves.” Penguin Press “Participant has a strong track record of producing films about serious social issues based on real-life stories,“ said Bauer. (Sept.Participant Media CEO David Linde 'Energized' By Industry's Commitment To Social Change - Banff Participant Media The result is a gripping indictment of a bad business. In addition, he sets his reportage in the context of a history of for-profit incarceration in the South that is rife with racism and torture. More and more I focus on proving I won’t back down”). Bauer vividly depicts Winn’s poisonous culture as he finds himself succumbing to its mind-set of paranoid authoritarianism (“Striving to treat everyone as human takes too much energy. With a $34-per-day-per-inmate budget, the prison axed educational and recreational programs and fatally skimped on health care (one inmate Bauer met lost both legs after officials failed to hospitalize him for an infection another hanged himself after his suicide threats were ignored). Bauer and his fellow guards were understaffed (sometimes three guards for a 352-prisoner unit), paid $9 an hour, poorly trained, and afraid of inmates prison management veered between chaotic laxness and brutal crackdowns. Equipped with a hidden camera and recorder, he found a snake pit of exploited labor and substandard correctional services. In 2014 at Louisiana’s Winn Correctional Center, a private prison run by Corrections Corporation of America (now CoreCivic). Mother Jones reporter Bauer, who wrote about being imprisoned in Iran for two years in A Sliver of Light, hired on as a guard Deprivation, abuse, and fear oppress inmates and guards alike in this hard-hitting exposé of the for-profit prison industry.

American prison a reporter's undercover journey