![]() ![]() Instead of being housed in separate cells, offenders are held in dormitory-style layers with a central surveillance and control hub known as the "key." Bauer discovers a substantial portion of the workers to be cynical, indifferent and demoralized. Bauer's training lasts four weeks, during which time he learns about CCA policy, situations to avoid (for example, sexual relations with inmates), the importance of maintaining profitability, and how to deal with life-threatening situations by saving oneself and letting the incarcerated fight it out. Bauer asks for a job as a correctional officer (CO) and gets employed at $9 an hour by Louisiana's Winn prison after some initial apprehension. As a journalist with firsthand experience of incarceration - Bauer spent almost two years in Iran's Evin Prison - curiosity Bauer's leads him to the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the country's largest private prison contractor. Conners2 Summary: Shane Bauer, a Mother Jones magazine investigative reporter, seeks to investigate America's prison-for-profit system. ![]()
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