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Monday, June 27th, 2016

My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard

Author:     Shane Bauer
Source:     Mother Jones
Publication Date:     27 June 2016 (Used)
 Link: My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard
Stephan:   Nearly two million Americans are currently part of the new slavery in the American Gulag, most of them enslaved because of nonviolent drug crimes, and they are overwhelmingly Black or Hispanic. This is a moral disgrace and a cancer on our society, and you won't hear a word about it in the current campaign season. Here is an insider's story of what an American private prison is really like. Corrections Corporation of America is an evil corporation right up there with Monsanto.
Grotesque over-crowding is commonplace in America's gulag. Credit: sf.newleaderscouncil.org

Grotesque over-crowding is commonplace in America’s gulag.
Credit: sf.newleaderscouncil.org

Chapter 1: “Inmates Run This Bitch”

Have you ever had a riot?” I ask a recruiter from a prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).
“The last riot we had was two years ago,” he says over the phone.
“Yeah, but that was with the Puerto Ricans!” says a woman’s voice, cutting in. “We got rid of them.”
“When can you start?” the man asks.
I tell him I need to think it over.

I take a breath. Am I really going to become a prison guard? Now that it might actually happen, it feels scary and a bit extreme.

From the editor: Why we sent a reporter to work as a private prison guard

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, […]

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