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100	1		_aBauer, Shane, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAmerican prison : _ba reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment / _cShane Bauer.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c2018.
300			_a351 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 297-338) and index.
510	4		_aPublishers Weekly, _cJune 18, 2018
510	4		_aKirkus Reviews, _cJune 15, 2018
510	4		_aBookPage, _cSeptember 11, 2018
510	4		_aBooklist, _cAugust 01, 2018
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPrisons _zUnited States.
650		0	_aImprisonment _zUnited States.
650		0	_aJournalists _zUnited States.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBauer, Shane, author. _tAmerican prison _dNew York City : Penguin Press, 2018 _z9780735223592 _w(DLC) 2018021131
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