Amy Goodman
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The Business of Punishment: How Forced Prison Labor Has Generated Revenue Since the Colonial Era
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30:34Now PlayingWe continue our interview with awardwinning journalist Shane Bauer about his new book, American Prison, which dives deep into the profitearning motives of U.S. prisons. Starting with convict labor in colonialera settlements all the way to present day mass incarceration, Bauer also recounts his own stint as an undercover prison guard at the privately owned Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana, and the four months he was held in solitary confinement in an Iran prison as a political prisoner.
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