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American Prison by Shane Bauer
After his 2014 expose about his experiences as a prison guard in a Lousisiana for-profit prison, Shane Bauer soon realised the cruelty of the current American system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration cannot be understood without first understanding its origins. In American Prison, Bauer weaves together a deeper reckoning of his prison guard experience with a thorough history of for-profit prisons in America. A blistering accusation of the private prison system in the United States, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in the USA.Shane Bauer is a Mother Jones senior reporter. He has won the National Magazine Award for Outstanding Reporting, the Harvard Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Michael Kelly Award from Atlantic Media, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, and at least 20 more awards. Bauer is the co-author of A Sliver of Light, a memoir about his experience as an Iranian prisoner, alongside Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780735223608 |
| ISBN 10 | 0735223602 |
| Title | American Prison |
| Author | Shane Bauer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Prentice Hall Press |
| Year published | 2019-06-11 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Commended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2018 |
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