Episode 4: American Prison

“To all the hustlers, bastards, strugglers, and hoodlum childs
who are chasing their dreams.” 


On this episode of Remainders, Darren and Patrick discuss the
book American Prison by Shane Bauer. Bauer is an investigative
journalist who posed as a correctional officer in a private
prison in Louisiana to expose the deplorable conditions for both
inmates and officers. The purpose was to uncover the inner
workings one of America’s most controversial topics--prisons that
work for profit, which many people consider to operate as modern
day slavery. 


Bauer himself suffered through imprisonment for over two years
while reporting in Iran. But in American Prison, he tries to
understand what happens when there’s a clear economic incentive
to locking people up. Or more explicitly, who is getting rich by
keeping people in prison?


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