“To all the hustlers, bastards, strugglers, and hoodlum childs who are chasing their dreams.”
On this episode of Remainders, Darren and Patrick discuss the book American Prison by Shane Bauer. Bauer is an investigative journalist who posed as a correctional officer in a private prison in Louisiana to expose the deplorable conditions for both inmates and officers. The purpose was to uncover the inner workings one of America’s most controversial topics--prisons that work for profit, which many people consider to operate as modern day slavery.
Bauer himself suffered through imprisonment for over two years while reporting in Iran. But in American Prison, he tries to understand what happens when there’s a clear economic incentive to locking people up. Or more explicitly, who is getting rich by keeping people in prison?
