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"An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” (NPR.org)
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A groundbreaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.
In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for nine dollars an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones.
Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still.
The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or to attract and retain a highly trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison's sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone.
A blistering indictment of the private prison system, and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.
Critic reviews
“American Prison reprises [Bauer’s] page-turning narrative [as reported in Mother Jones], and adds not only the fascinating back story of CCA, the nation’s first private prison company, but also an eye-opening examination of the history of corrections as a profit-making enterprise.... Bauer is a generous narrator with a nice ear for detail, and his colleagues come across as sympathetic characters, with a few notable exceptions.... The sheer number of forehead-slapping quotes from Bauer’s superiors and fellow guards alone are worth the price of admission." (The New York Times Book Review)
“American Prison is both the remarkable story of a journalist who spent four months working as a corrections officer, and a horrifying exposé of how prisoners were treated by a corporation that profited from them.... It’s Bauer’s investigative chops, though, that make American Prison so essential. He dedicated his time at Winn to talking with prisoners and guards, who were unaware that he was a journalist.... Based on his firsthand experience and these conversations, he paints a damning picture of prisoner mistreatment and under-staffing at the prison, where morale among the incarcerated and the employees was poor. The stories he tells are deeply sad and consistently infuriating... An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” (NPR.org)
“A relentless and uncompromising book, one that takes a crowbar to the private prison industry and yanks hard, letting just enough daylight slip inside to illuminate the contours of the beast.... The private prison industry is booming once again. To find out what that means for real people - both those who guard and those who are guarded - American Prison is the place to begin.” (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. Sonny Barger recounts the birth of the original Oakland Hell's Angels and the four turbulent decades that followed. Hell's Angel also chronicles the way the HAMC revolutionized the look of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle and built what has become a worldwide bike-riding fraternity, a beacon for freedom-seekers the world over.
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A must for any true biker
- By Chris B on 06-20-15
By: Sonny Barger
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Hotel K (Kerobokan)
- By: Kathryn Bonella
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, the tongue-in-cheek nickname for Kerobokan Jail, Bali's most notorious prison. It is a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor.
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nope.
- By Nick on 08-05-17
By: Kathryn Bonella
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The Tin Collectors
- By: Stephen J. Cannell
- Narrated by: Robert Lawrence
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L.A. police detective Shane Scully comes under investigation by Internal Affairs (derisively known as "the tin collectors") after he kills his ex-partner who was one of the mayor's bodyguards. Temporarily reassigned, so that he can remain under the department's watchful eye, Scully finds that more than his badge is at stake when he is set up to take the rap in a deadly plot of corruption and conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the LAPD.
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Police Procedural Gone Bad
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The Last Good Heist
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On August 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, Rhode Island. The crooks fled with duffel bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels, and high-end jewelry. The true value of the loot has always been kept secret, partly because it was ill-gotten to begin with, and partly because there was plenty of incentive to keep its true worth out of the limelight.
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Interesting but not the greatest story.
- By Russell on 07-21-17
By: Wayne Worcester, and others
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Detroit
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In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age - mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs - Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark and the righteous indignation that only a native son can possess, journalist Charlie LeDuff sets out to uncover what has brought low this once-vibrant city, his city.
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WOW
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By: Charlie LeDuff
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The Fire THIS Time
- By Darwin8u on 06-24-17
By: Don Winslow
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The Onion Field
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn’t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story of a fatal collision of destinies that would lead two young cops and two young robbers to a deserted field on the outskirts of Los Angeles, towards a bizarre execution and its terrible aftermath.
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Haunting
- By Avalon on 03-03-13
By: Joseph Wambaugh
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Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape and eventually identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken - but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After 11 years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed.
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Listen for the story not the writing
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By: Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, and others
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The Murder of Sonny Liston
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On January 5, 1971, Sonny Liston was found dead in his home - of an apparent heroin overdose. But no one close to Liston believed that his death was accidental. Digging deep into a life that Liston tried hard to hide, Shaun Assael treats the boxer's death as a cold case. The result is a riveting whodunit that evokes a glorious and grimy era of Las Vegas.
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Great read
- By Diane Dodge on 09-14-19
By: Shaun Assael
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American Pain
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American Pain chronicles the rise and fall of this game-changing pill mill and how it helped tip the nation into its current opioid crisis. The narrative, which swings back and forth between Florida and Kentucky, is populated by a diverse cast of characters.
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Now I understand the problem
- By Amazon Customer in Sanford NC on 07-07-16
By: John Temple
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Sex Money Murder
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Based on years of research and extraordinary access to former gang members, reporter Jonthan Green creates an epic character-driven narrative, drawing on first-person interviews, police reports, and court transcripts to offer a unique and engrossing work of gritty urban reportage. Magisterial in its scope, Sex Money Murder offers an extraordinary perspective on modern-day America.
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Narrator using the N word was cringe worthy
- By Bmac on 09-07-18
By: Jonathan Green
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Once a Cop
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New Jack City meets Serpico in this provocative memoir of a crack dealer-turned-decorated NYPD officer - a timely reflection on the complex relationship between the police and the communities they are meant to protect.
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A POSSIBLE GOOD BOOK RUINED BY NARRATION
- By The Louligan on 05-29-16
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Bluegrass
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Widely published journalist William Van Meter returned to his hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky to research this harrowing account of a horrifying crime that occurred at Western Kentucky University. In 2003, attractive college student Katie Autry was found dead in her dorm room after being raped, stabbed, and set on fire. As Van Meter delves into the facts of the case, further disturbing information surfaces.
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Excellent!
- By brooke whitehead on 01-09-23
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No Angel
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Getting shot in the chest as a rookie ATF agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 miles per hour, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols - these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiences Jay Dobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard to imagine, but true story of how he infiltrated the legendary Hells Angels.
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"I would avoid this one..."
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The Beast Side
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To many in the age of Obama, America had succeeded in "going beyond race", putting the divisions of the past behind us. And then 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; and then Baltimore blew up; and then gunfire shattered a prayer meeting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Suddenly the entire country awakened to a stark fact: Young Black men are an endangered species.
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Excellent
- By Bruce Cline on 03-28-23
By: D. Watkins
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Disgusting
We never really ended slavery, only rebranded it as prison labor. The modern version is the privatized prison. They kept that guy in prison for a year after his time was up. Why? He had no place to go. So, they pay practically nothing, take it back in commissary, provide no job training, then keep you in prison because you have no place to go because you have no money. We need to end this evil system. I'm writing to my state representative.
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- LEE
- 12-11-18
It's a scary book.
Shane Bauer was brutally honest - that's why I recommend the book. He describes prison conditions and how it shaped his character in 4 short months. Prison immersion changes people, believe it.
Government allows private prisons because they're cheaper, plain and simple. By the end of the book, one understands this forward and backward.
The book gives a window into how things actually work in private prisons, the cold logic that prevails while most of the rest falls off. It's difficult for the mind to reconcile such differences, but one learns to accept them.
The scary thing is how the historical sections of the book don't support any reason to hope things are going to get better.
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- Mike
- 11-20-18
Dark, entertaining, and informative.
Quite possibly one of the most entertaining non-fiction books I’ve ever read. A glimpse into the twisted world of the American prison system that will throw you into an emotional whirlwind of anger, sadness, and hopelessness.
An important read if we are ever going to fix this deeply broken piece of our society. We have 4% of the world’s population yet 1/4 of its prisoners. The goal seems to be to make prison profitable, not to rehabilitate criminals. If you are a true patriot and care about the USA, you’ll read this book!
The narration is very well done also.
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- JTS
- 11-20-20
You need to stay with the actual story
Your mom inclusion of the history of the corporate officers of CCA was very helpful. Your attempt to weave an investigative reporters narrative into the hundreds of years of slave/indentured servitude is beyond the scope of both your abilities and the intent of this book.
I am a father who has a Son currently serving time in an Ohio State Prison. I was actually looking for more insight into how prison culture use individuals like my Son, the regular use of binding new prisoners up into a prison debt system with no way out. I was looking for ways and methods I could employ to bolster either the counselors or religious staff in their efforts to help (or if there are other avenues to bring life/light/hope into what can only be described as a Hell on earth).
To be honest, I am only 10 chapters in and it’s possible you might get to some of my criticisms. However, again much of what I have heard thus far is about underpaid, over worked, under educated people on one end and a fabulously greedy corporate culture on the other. At this point, there isn’t much difference between CCA and Walmart (yet another slave state of affairs).
I will read it to the end, if I find out no lawsuits were filed or settled, no one was held accountable and yet all the CCA’s atrocities just continue under the “no fault” state/federal management system, your book will have been a waste of paper.
I am all too familiar with the profit centers like Jpay, GTL, (Ohio) Union Supply Direct, Walkenhort’s Inmate Supply, Access Securepak who regularly market their inflated product supply/inventories to families of inmates. Our Society has figured out all sorts of new ways to monetize both the families and the inmates. This is all a damnable process and it is possible reporters like you might be the answer. First, now is a great time to throw away what happened 200-3000 years ago, focus on the atrocities of today and how it will effect tomorrow.
I just a Dad who hurts every day, then I get “promotions” through email from Jpay and others on add-one I should purchase to make my “Loved One” more comfortable. I honestly have the home address in Florida of the owner of Jpay, I have a burning desire to go to his house and confront him in the most aggressive manner possible. You have the power of the pen, keep focused and keep your reporting on today’s atrocities! That will help me and hopefully my Son.
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- Pamela J Blair
- 10-03-18
Required reading
This book should be required reading in every high school civics class and in every US history class in both high school and college. Bauer has given an account of something hidden from the public eye that everyone should know. Riveting, accessible and eye-opening. Also read on Audible with perfection.
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- Michael Friedman
- 01-04-19
A Remarkable Story
This is a well written book on many levels. Mr. Bauer became a prison guard at a private correctional facility in Louisiana working for what is now called CoreCivic. It is a corporation that provides extremely poor, limited services at correctional facilities so that it can generate millions of dollars in profits for its shareholders and management. Mr. Bauer’s observations of careless, dangerous, inhuman behavior at the expense of employees and inmates was routinely denied by CoreCivic who threatened to sue his publication (Mother Jones) and Mr. Bauer if they published what he observed. Thankfully Mr. Bauer recorded and filmed what the observed and no lawsuit was forthcoming. This is, in essence, the cruel and unusual punishment that is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to our Constitution.
Mr. Bauer tells his story with a cogent history of private ownership of correctional facilities that dates back hundreds of years and essentially replaced slavery with cheap labor that is forced to work under inhuman conditions.
On another level, Mr. Bauer lets us know the effect of just a few weeks of his employment on his personal life, his feelings and the changes to his personality. It is a remarkable story. It deserves to be a NY Times Best Book of 2018.
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- josh monroe
- 09-28-19
Too much of a history lesson!
The only parts of this book I truly enjoyed were when he was telling the stories of the prisoners and their backgrounds. There was way too much history of prisons. I would have enjoyed hearing more about his day to day life in CCA.
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- Mev K.
- 12-05-18
Intense
Enjoyable, interesting, intense. Once I started listening on Audible, I couldn’t stop until I was completely finished. A bit too much detail on the history of U.S. prisons, but all in all satisfying. Great work by the author on exposing the truth about private prisons in America.
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- Andrew
- 05-08-19
Boring
The chapters dealing with the history of prisons and prisoners were interesting but the chapters detailing his undercover work were flat out boring. I guess I was expecting more drama. Got about halfway through the book and couldn't listen any more.
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- chaoticangel38
- 03-25-19
Thought provocking and disturbing prison truths!
This is a very harsh look at prisons in America, past and present. The writer does an excellent job of creating a good history of how prisons in America started and morphed into what today, is the industrial prison complex. It is shocking, and at times unbelievable, the way human beings have been treated and how they are treated today. I would recommend this book for anyone who is interested in the human condition and prisons in general.
Paula W.
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