Dolores Crain of Slidell, Louisiana, writes, if your fear of being uncovered or discovered as an undercover reporter hadn't interrupted your work as a correctional officer, do you think that would have produced a different outcome to your book? In other words, when you're undercover, how do you know when it's time to get out? So, you know, I wanted to kind of be able to see what was happening inside of these prisons and also really get a sense of the kind of day to day life in a prison, which you just cannot do from reporting from documents.Īmna Nawaz: Well, one of our readers wanted to know a little bit about your process. And private prisons are even more difficult. Reporters typically only get into prisons where we get like a kind of scripted tour for maybe an hour or so. One is that it is very hard to get into prisons. You can develop sources or pull documents. Welcome to The NewsHour.Īmna Nawaz: So I guess I have to ask you, there's a lot of different ways to report on prisons in America. He also delves into the long, dark history of for profit incarceration in America.
In "American Prison," Bauer details the corruption and the dysfunction he witnessed at Wynn.
Bauer spent four months working undercover as a guard at Louisiana's Winn Correctional Center. Amna Nawaz: Our book club Pick for February is an eye opening account of the private prison industry from journalist Shane Bauer.
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