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Episode 46 America's Incarceration Industry: Exposing Private Prisons Peer into the world of prison profiteers with Shane Bauer. Shane's name may sound familiar. In 2009, he and two friends were hiking near the Iraq-Iran border when they were arrested by Iranian authorities, accused of espionage and imprisoned for more than two years. Extensive international pressure and diplomatic efforts ultimately secured their release. An American journalist and author, Shane decided to dive deeper into the private U.S. prison system after his return to America. Working as an undercover guard in a private Louisiana prison, Shane exposed its conditions and practices in his award-winning book, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment. He and host Matt Adams engage in a perspective-shifting conversation on the origins of America's private prison system, which accelerated in the South after the Civil War. They also discuss the impact of Shane's book on the industry, which pivoted into immigration detention during the Trump administration.

In 2021 it's difficult for the average person to imagine that someone born and raised in the United States does not know how to use technology or navigate public transportation, or could be overcome with anxiety at the thought of crossing the street. Now imagine being in a position where it's frowned upon to ask for help in those situations or even ask questions because you're expected to just KNOW. I was that person 6 years ago. For over a decade I lived in what I call a time capsule. I was eventually released from one of NJ's state prisons but to an area, where I had never lived, at an age that people expected me to act in a manner that was foreign to me, and without the support needed for my survival. I couldn't get a job because I never had a resume, I couldn't get an apartment because I had no rental, employment, or credit history, I couldn't do the many things that would prevent me from going back to the system designed for me to fail. I'm not the only neighbor you pass that has a similar reentry experience. Hiding In Plain Sight: The Neighbors You Never Hear From is an audio series that will take you on the journey of reentry through the first-hand experiences of 6 people and where they are today.Tia Ryans is an advocate against the detrimental culminations of the criminal legal system. Her areas of passion and study surround the intersectionality between environmental, social, and criminal injustices that impact disenfranchised communities. As the Founding Executive Director of Forcing Out Recidivism Through Education (F.O.R.T.E. House), she provides a healthy and stable living environment for formerly incarcerated students transitioning from incarceration through post-secondary education.Tia is also the Founding Chapter Leader of All of Us or None - Northern NJ, where she leads grassroots advocacy initiatives to support families directly impacted by the criminal legal system. As a first-generation college graduate, she holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Rutgers University- Newark. Her experiences include her work with Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) to strengthen and maintain constituent relationships, collaborations with ETS for best practices surrounding justice impacted college students in the educational ecosystem, and presentations in spaces such as The AAUW about the advancements to advocacy and education for women and girls. Tia is also a speaker of the Faces of Women Imprisoned Speakers Bureau to deepen and broaden public conversation through public symposiums.To support the continued work of NJ F.O.R.T.E House and learn more about the organization, visit: njfortehouse.orgGet involved: All of us or None-Northern NJ Tia's Book RecommendationsFourth City: Essays from Prison in America, Edited by Doran Larson (2014)Just Mercy, By Bryan Stevenson (2014)Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, By Emily Bazelon (2019)From Prison to Ph.D.: A Memoir of Hope, Resilience, and Second Chances, By Jason SoleCaught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, By Marie Gottschalk (2014)A Colony in a Nation, By Chris Hayes (2017)Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness, By Alisa Roth (2018)American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment, By Shane Bauer (2018)Among the Lowest of the Dead, By David Von Drehle (1995)Anatomy of Injustice, By Raymond Bonner (2012)Autobiography of an Execution, By David Dow (2010)Burning Down The House: The End of Juvenile Prison, By Nell Bernstein (2014)Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong, By Brandon Garrett (2011)Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration, By Lauren-Brooke Eisen (2017)A False Report: A True Story of Rape in AmericaBy T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong (2018)Prison Rape: An American Institution?, by Michael Singer  (Author)Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisonsby Robin Levi (Editor), Ayelet Waldman (Goodreads Author) (Editor)Dark Alliance by Gary Webb (1998)S Street Rising by Ruben Castaneda (2014)This series is part of the Newark News, and Story Collaborative made possible with funding support from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the Victoria Foundation. The Newark News and Story Collaborative is committed to elevating community-driven storytelling to fill information gaps in local and national media. The Collaborative trains community members in storytelling, media-making, and other creative art forms to share and amplify their experiences. It's laying the groundwork for a collaborative network that will address longstanding information inequities in Newark, New Jersey. For more information and hear local stories, you can go to newarkstories.com.

This week Alice and Kim talk arctic explorers, murder in the tropics, and the mixed reactions to nonfiction bestseller Girl, Wash Your Face. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis By the Book podcast BuzzFeed: “Girl, Wash Your Face” Is A Massive Best-Seller With A Dark Message Tidying Up with Marie Kondo New Books Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Marriedby Abby Ellin A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America by Reniqua Allen The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land Weekly Theme: The Arctic Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff Ada Blackjack: A True Tale of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven The Tropics Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon by Chris Feliciano Arnold Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen by Linda M. Heywood Reading Now American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover Remember the Ladies: Women in America, 1750-1815 by Linda Grant De Pauw CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

On The Gist, Europeans are fighting over daylight saving time, which is way better than having a World War. Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer has been on both sides of a prison’s bars. After spending two years as a political prisoner in Iran, he returned to the U.S. and got a job as a private prison guard. His real aim, of course, was to report on why the American prison system—private and public—is broken. Bauer’s new book is American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment. In the Spiel, a debate roundup ahead of the midterms. This episode is brought to you by Exchanges, a podcast from Goldman Sachs. Listen today wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On The Gist, Europeans are fighting over daylight saving time, which is way better than having a World War. Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer has been on both sides of a prison’s bars. After spending two years as a political prisoner in Iran, he returned to the U.S. and got a job as a private prison guard. His real aim, of course, was to report on why the American prison system—private and public—is broken. Bauer’s new book is American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment. In the Spiel, a debate roundup ahead of the midterms. This episode is brought to you by Exchanges, a podcast from Goldman Sachs. Listen today wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones whose new book is  American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss his four months as a guard at a private prison in Louisiana, and what he learned about the American system of justice. Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod Podcast production by Max Jacobs. Listen to I Have to Ask via Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones whose new book is  American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss his four months as a guard at a private prison in Louisiana, and what he learned about the American system of justice. Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod Podcast production by Max Jacobs. Listen to I Have to Ask via Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices