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

… 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 … Bauer also recounts his own stint as an undercover prison guard at the privately owned Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana, and the four months he was held in solitary confinement in an Iran prison as a political prisoner.

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