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Slavery, the root of antiblack racism, was a for-profit venture. When slavery ended, powerful interests immediately devised a way to continue profiting from the captive bodies of African Americans and other poor people.

American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer

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American Prison by Shane Bauer

Amazing book if you’re interested in the American private prison system. Every other chapter is a history of incarceration and slavery, dispersed between the chapters on Bauer’s time at Winn Correctional Center as an undercover reporter. I thought Bauer’s self-transformation and his struggle between power/control and not losing his humanity was really interesting. (The book is also on Obama’s 2018 reading list!)

Hoping to read The Shape of Water in the next week. I’ve started going to the gym and doing the stair master while reading (multitasking hell yeah)

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The Business of Punishment: How Forced Prison Labor Has Generated Revenue Since the Colonial Era

We continue our interview with award-winning journalist Shane Bauer about his new book, “American Prison,” which dives deep into the profit-earning motives of U.S. prisons.

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Democracy Now! Published on Sep 20, 2018

American Prison: Shane Bauer Traces History of U.S. For-Profit Prisons from Slavery to Today

“American Prison.” That’s the name of the new book by award-winning journalist Shane Bauer, who dives deep into the profit-earning motives of U.S. prisons, from convict labor in colonial-era settlements all the way to present day mass incarceration, including Bauer’s own stint as an undercover prison guard at the privately owned Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana. We speak with Shane Bauer in New York City. 

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Shane Bauer continues to warn us that the extreme right is organised, united and supported by state

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"Y'all can't change shit," the prisoner yells back. "They ain't got shit for us here. We ain't got no jobs. No rec time. We just sit in our cells all day. What you think gonna happen when a man got nuttin' to do? That's why we throw shit out on the tier. What else are we going to do? You know how we get these officers to respect us? We throw piss on 'em. That's the only way. Either that or throw them to the floor. Then they respect us." I ask one of the regular white-shirted COs what an average day in seg looks like. "To be honest with you, normally we just sit here at this table all day long," he tells me. They are supposed to walk up and down the eight tiers every 30 minutes to check on the inmates, but he says they never do that. (CCA says it had no knowledge of guards at Winn skipping security checks before I inquired about it.)

My Four Months As A Private Prison Guard

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The horror

I am reading a long article in Mother Jones magazine by Shane Bauer an investigative journalist who took a $9 per hour job as a corrections officer in a prison operated by Corrections Corporation of America. Bauer details under-staffing motivated by profit, neglect of inmates, neglecting inmates mental and physical health and conditions that would shock any caring person. Bauer looks into the…

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My four months as a private prison guard