![]() Don Hutto and currently has over 80 types of correctional facilities across the U.S. The chief culprit in this story is the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which was co-founded by veteran prison administrator T. And his expose into what is wrong with the private prison system in America has been expanded to book form, and the result is the riveting American Prison. His four months as a corrections officer at the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana resulted in an expose that was published in Mother Jones, and won Bauer a National Magazine Award. Only this time, Bauer would not see the conditions of a private prison from the point of view of a convict, but as a prison guard. ![]() ![]() This time, Bauer decided to investigate how privatization of a number of prisons across the U.S., especially how the prison system is being run more like a business than a penal institution. Shane Bauer, a senior reporter for Mother Jones magazine, has taken a page from Nellie Bly’s book of how to be an undercover reporter to get the inside story dealing with a pressing social matter. ![]()
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