They convince themselves, with remarkable ease, that they are in the business of punishment, because it makes the world better, not because it makes them rich.” In 2014, Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer went undercover as a guard at Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana. Winn Correctional was a for-profit prison run by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), later renamed to the deceptively publicly responsible CoreCivic. American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment delves into the history of prisons-for-profit and Bauer’s […]