LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Bauer, Shane, author.

Title: American prison : a reporter’s undercover journey into the business of punishment / Shane Bauer.

Description: New York City : Penguin Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018018293 (print) | LCCN 2018021131 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735223592 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735223585 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Prisons—United States. | Imprisonment—United States. | BISAC: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights.

Classification: LCC HV9471 (ebook) | LCC HV9471 .B384 2018 (print) | DDC 365/.973—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018018293

MAP BY JEFF WARD

Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals involved.

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For the prisoners in America

We all want to believe in our inner power, our sense of personal agency, to resist external situational forces of the kinds operating in this Stanford Prison Experiment. . . . For many, that belief of personal power to resist powerful situational and systemic forces is little more than a reassuring illusion of invulnerability.

—Philip Zimbardo

You just sell it like you were selling cars, or real estate, or hamburgers.

—Corrections Corporation of America cofounder Thomas Beasley

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