- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights, Prisons, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement
"A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. IIn 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana.
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Earnest, grave, contemporary and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Shane Bauer
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Penguin Audio, Penguin Press, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781432860004
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Subjects
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
- Prisons
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement
- Imprisonment
- Prisons, united states
- New York Times reviewed
- Corrections
- Contracting out
- Correctional personnel
- Psychology
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
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