American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment Audiobook (Free)

New York Occasions Reserve Review 10 Ideal Books of 2018

One of Chief executive Barack Obama’s beloved books of 2018

Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Reserve Prize

Winner from the Helen Bernstein Reserve Award for Brilliance in Journalism

Winner from the 2019 RFK Reserve and Journalism Award

A FRESH York Times Well known Book

A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning using the nexus of prison and profit in the us: in one Louisiana jail and during the period of our country’s background.

In 201 about American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Trip in to the Business of Consequence 4, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 one hour to are an entry-level prison safeguard at an exclusive prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he utilized his genuine name; there is no meaningful background check. Four weeks later, his work found an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and promptly he published an exposé about his encounters that gained a National Journal Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the newspaper Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he had a need to say. In American Jail, Bauer weaves a more deeply reckoning along with his encounters as well as a thoroughly researched background of for-profit prisons in America from their roots in the years before the Civil War. For, as he quickly realized, we can’t understand the cruelty of our current program and its put in place the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Personal prisons became entrenched in the South within a systemic effort to keep carefully the African-American work force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of the shameful origins are with us still.

The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Personal prisons aren’t incentivized to have a tendency to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or even to entice and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends a few of his co-workers and sympathizes using their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only increases the prison’s sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer discovers himself getting crueler and even more aggressive the much longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone.

A blistering indictment of the personal prison system, as well as the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true encounter of justice in the us.