My Four Months As A Private Prison Guard
by Shane Bauer at Mother Jones
... "I started applying for jobs in private prisons because I wanted to see the inner workings of an industry that holds 131,000 of the nation's 1.6 million prisoners.
As a journalist, it's nearly impossible to get an unconstrained look
inside our penal system. When prisons do let reporters in, it's usually
for carefully managed tours and monitored interviews with inmates.
Private prisons are especially secretive. Their records often aren't
subject to public access laws; CCA has fought to defeat
legislation that would make private prisons subject to the same
disclosure rules as their public counterparts. And even if I could get
uncensored information from private prison inmates, how would I verify
their claims? I keep coming back to this question:
"Is there any other
way to see what really happens inside a private prison?" ...
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