RT Book
T1 American prison: a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment
A1 Bauer, Shane
LA English
PP New York
PB Penguin Books
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1683642988
AB In 2014, award-winning journalist Shane Bauer went undercover as an entry-level guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé 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 needed to be said. Weaving together a deeper reckoning of Bauer's experiences with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons--institutions that predate the Civil War--American Prison is a blistering indictment of a system unaccountable to public scrutiny and a powerful human document about the true face of justice in America. -- Back cover
NO Contains bibliographic references (pages [297]-338) and index
CN HV9471
SN 0735223602
SN 9780735223608
K1 Prisons : United States
K1 Convict labor : United States
K1 Convict labor : United States : History
K1 Imprisonment : United States
K1 Corrections : Contracting out : United States
K1 Correctional personnel : Psychology
K1 Convict labor
K1 Correctional personnel ; Psychology
K1 Corrections ; Contracting out
K1 Imprisonment
K1 Prisons
K1 United States
K1 History
K1 Erlebnisbericht
K1 USA : Justizvollzugsanstalt : Strafvollzug