![]() ![]() ![]() He entered the system intent on being a passive observer- a diligent reporter disguised as a laid-back, upstanding guard. What he saw still haunts him: men stabbing each other with handmade knives as guards looked on officers in tactical gear storming the prison’s dormitories an assault victim writhing in panic as he pleaded for protection from a predatory inmate a prisoner whose gangrene went untreated so long he had to have his legs amputated.īut of all the alarming things Bauer experienced, perhaps the most frightening was the transformation he noticed within himself. His 35,000-word story provides a rare, harrowing look at the closed world of private prisons - a system that holds 131,000 people nationwide. He went undercover, spending four months as a prison guard at Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana. Tired of old-fashioned document-hunting, he tried an unconventional approach. For years he’d been frustrated by the secretive nature of the American private prison industry. Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer has spent much of his career reporting on criminal justice. ![]()
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