![]() ![]() Published in June 2016, Shane Bauer’s “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard” - accompanied by gripping undercover footage, data, primary documents and a radio documentary-sparked a dramatic media response and earned praise from readers, journalists, celebrities, prison reform organizations and even former Corrections Corporation of America employees and inmates. ![]() “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard” is a raw, gripping chronicle of both a company’s struggle to maintain control of a facility stretched to the limit by cost-cutting and mismanagement, and Bauer’s own fight to maintain his humanity in a system that is equally destructive of both inmates and guards. That began a four-month odyssey during which Bauer witnessed stabbings, an escape, lockdowns - and his own transformation into a prison guard, with reactions and feelings he barely recognized as his own. He was quickly hired for a $9-an-hour job at a medium-security prison in Louisiana. In December 2014, Mother Jones senior reporter Shane Bauer applied for a job as a prison guard for Corrections Corporation of America, the country’s second-largest private prison company. ![]()
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