Watch: What It's Like To Earn $9 An Hour As A Prison Guard

James West, Mother Jones
Sun, 06/26/2016 - 3:00am

In December 2014, Mother Jones senior reporter Shane Bauer started a job as a corrections officer at a Louisiana prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the country's second-largest private prison company. During his four months on the job, Bauer would witness stabbings, an escape, lockdowns, and an intervention by the state Department of Corrections as the company struggled to maintain control.

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