2017 Winner, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard

Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer spent four months working as a guard to get a deep look inside the secretive world of private prisons, exposing mismanagement. Within a few weeks, the Department of Justice announced it would end its use of private prisons and the Department of Homeland Security said it would consider doing the same.

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