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Nearly 2 million people are locked in US jails and prisons on any given day. That's a 500% increase in during the last 40 years. Mass incarceration fueled a move toward private prisons-for-profit as states ran out of space to house incarcerated people and money to build new prisons. Our contemporary system of private prisons -for-profit began in the 1980s. Today, private prisons make billions of dollars every year housing, feeding and overseeing incarcerated people who the state pays them to lock up. But making money off of incarcerated bodies isn't a new idea. It's actually older than the United States.  For a great genealogical take on the contemporary prison system, check out Shane Bauer's book American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment. For more on the drug war, prison profits and CCA (CoreCivic), see Discourses of Deception: (Re)Examining America's War on Drugs. 

Welcome back to our book series, On the Same Page. This week we're discussing the award winning, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer. In this non-fiction novel, Bauer, an investigative reporter for Mother Jones magazine, decides to dig into America's prison-for-profit system. As a sneak peak, we were not ready for the bluntness, racial inequitities, and the present-day realities that were detailed in this book.

In John Rawls' 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, he offers a thought experiment known as the Veil of Ignorance. Behind this veil, no knows who they are. They don't know their race, class, age, sex, privileges, disadvantages, or even their personality. Only once they step through the veil will they know their place in society. But before they take that step, they are tasked with designing it - its laws and its structures, its benefits and punishments. Imagine yourself behind the veil. How would you construct the world, if you weren't sure of your own place within it? Samuel Weiss, Executive Director of Rights Behind Bars, has a deep understanding of what certain corners of our society look like when that veil goes unconsidered.Rights Behind BarsPrison Policy Initiative - Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, by Shane BauerThe Jailhouse Lawyer's HandbookACLU National Prison ProjectPrison Law OfficeCivil Rights Corps@RightsBehind----------Email: newliberalspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @NewLiberalsPod

On this episode we talk to Monticello’s Niya Bates about an event she moderated at the Northside Library centered around the largest sale of enslaved people in Monticello’s history. We also talk about what we read. Abby read American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer Katie read Disappearing … Continue reading S.3 Ep.9 – Roots and Remembrance →

In American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, Shane Bauer weaves a deep reckoning of his experience as a prison guard together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America. Julie Gautreau, an attorney with the Knox County Public Defenders Community Law Office, adds local context to the issues in this discussion for Books Sandwiched In. "American Prison exposes all the moving parts of our industrialized system of incarceration: its roots in slavery, its disproportionate exploitation of minorities and the poor, the complacency of the justice system and the cynicism of the legislative bodies that use it for political leverage. American Prison is a study in everything that is wrong with American justice and American business," Gautreau said. Music credit: "Three Stories" by https://www.sessions.blue (Blue Dot Sessions), CC BY-NC 4.0

Today's episode is a fascinating and timely conversation that comes to us courtesy of Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers program, featuring Kiese Laymon the author of Heavy: an American Memoir, and Shane Bauer, the author of American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment. Heavy and American Prison were, respectively, the first and second place recipients of the 2018 Discover Great New Writers Award for Nonfiction, and both are works that urgently grapple with the state of America today, winning deep praise from critics and readers alike. In Heavy, Laymon takes readers with him on an unforgettable journey from his Mississippi childhood to life as a university professor and acclaimed writer - an odyssey in which racism, sexual violence, trauma and other monstrosities of 21st-century America are challenged by love and a spirit of questing intelligence. And in American Prison, investigative journalist Shane Bauer sought out the real experience of Americans living in incarceration by taking an entry-level job in a private Louisiana prison - and bringing what he found onto the page with eloquence and painstaking care. In a moment when the issues that these books address seems more urgent in our nation's life than ever, we asked the authors to sit down with Miwa Messer, director of B&N's Discover Great New Writers program, to talk about their work, and how they see its meaning against the backdrop of America in 2019. A note for listeners: at points in this conversation, some strong language does come up, which may not be appropriate if you have young children in earshot.

After being detained in a notorious Iranian prison, Shane Bauer returned to journalism and took on an astonishing assignment: to go undercover as a guard in a private prison in Louisiana. His book “American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment” was one of President Obama’s favorite books of 2018. Sponsored by Mother Jones Magazine.

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The Stuph File Program Featuring soap star Jed Allan; maze creator, Clint Masse; & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter Download We remember soap star Jed Allan, who passed away at the age of 84.  He starred in many daytime soaps, including Days Of Our Lives, Santa Barbara, General Hospital, Love Of Life, Secret Storm and more.  Plus he was Ian Ziering’s TV Dad on Beverly Hills, 90210.  He also wrote a memoir called Please, Spell the Name Right. (Patreon subscribers can listen to a Patreon Reward Extra with bonus interview content with Jed Allan). Clint Moss is a Manitoba farmer who earned the Guinness World Record for creating the world’s largest snow maze. Stuart Nulman with another edition of Book Banter. This week’s reviewed title is American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer (Penguin Press, $37) You can also read Stuart’s reviews in The Montreal Times. This week’s opening slate is presented by me, Peter Anthony Holder, host of The Stuph File Program as we mark the 500th episode.

Gayle has updates for Nicole. She's joined Scribd, she's a veteran Spivey swapper and she's hit her reading goal for the year. Nicole discusses why she couldn't finish reading American Prison, and after discussing what they've been reading, they go on to talk about the best books they read in 2018. What We've Been Reading https://amzn.to/2CEnyVU ( Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger) by Rebecca Traister https://amzn.to/2RsUWHr ( American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Imprisonment) by Shane Bauer https://amzn.to/2VgGzow ( Sliver of Light: Three American Imprisoned in Iran) by Shane Bauer https://amzn.to/2GUBcrM (Daisy Jones and The Six) by Taylor Jenkins Reid Ray & Joan: The Man who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman who Gave it All Away​ by Lisa Napoli https://amzn.to/2CFjO6x (The Four​: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google)​ by Scott Galloway https://amzn.to/2Roz2Vu (The Other Woman) by Sandie Jones https://amzn.to/2B2OEHg (The Last Mrs. Parrish)  by Liv Constantine   Our Best Books of the Year The Incendiaries by R.O. KwonThat Kind of Mother by Ruman AlaamAn American Marriage by Tayari Joneshttps://amzn.to/2GwB2Fp (A Cloud in the Shape of A Girl) by Jean ThompsonThe Honey Farm by Harriet Alida Lyehttps://amzn.to/2BoLpb6 (The Caregiver)

In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. There was no meaningful background check, and he used his real name despite his notoriety as an award-winning investigative journalist. Four months later he had seen enough, and in short order he left to write an exposé that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Bauer joined us with excerpts from his book American Prisons: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment to weave a much deeper reckoning with his experiences. He shared his insider account of the private prison system, revealing how these establishments are not incentivized to tend to the health or safety of their inmates. Join Bauer for his blistering indictment of the private prison system and the powerful forces that drive it, and learn the sobering truth about the true face of justice in America. Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, Atlantic Media’s Michael Kelly Award, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, and at least 20 others. Bauer is the co-author, along with Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal, of a memoir, A Sliver of Light, which details his time spent as a prisoner in Iran. Recorded live at Seattle First Baptist Church by Town Hall Seattle on Tuesday, September 25, 2018.