![]() ![]() 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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