So I wanted to ask you - after that experience, what made you want to do this?īAUER: Well, when I got out in 2011, I came home. The conditions were harrowing, and so it was a little surprising that you would voluntarily go back into a prison. MARTIN: And I have to say that one of the reasons your story intrigued us is that - many people might remember this - you were actually imprisoned in Iran for a little over two years after you and a friend were hiking in 2009. It's called "American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into The Business Of Punishment." And Shane Bauer is with us now from Berkeley, Calif. He detailed his experience in an award-winning article for Mother Jones magazine, and he has expanded that reporting into a new book. So, in 2014, he applied for and accepted a $9-an-hour job as a prison guard at Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, La. By definition, prison is a closed world - hard to get in, even harder to get out, but Shane Bauer wanted to know what was going on inside America's prisons, especially in their growing for-profit prison industry.
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