![]() ![]() ![]() The nation’s second-biggest private prison company, CCA operates nearly 100 correctional facilities across the country. In 2014, Bauer applied for a job with the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which has since rebranded itself as CoreCivic. “American Prison” is 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. So journalist Shane Bauer, a Minnesota native and a reporter for Mother Jones magazine, decided the only way to find out what life inside a private prison was like was to get a job at one. It can be tough to know what goes on behind prison walls, and private corrections companies are especially reluctant to open up to outsiders. Americans like to think of our country as the land of the free - but that’s not the case for everyone: More than 2 million Americans are in jails or prisons in the U.S. ![]()
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