This seems especially true at this private prison, where there weren't enough staff or support or adequate training and pay.
The other thing this book highlights is how difficult working in a prison can be, both physically and mentally. Surely, what results is greed and abuse of power. The prison's primary goal would be to make as much money as possible while spending as little as possible on their prisoners, who are locked up and have no voice to protest. Prisons are a public service, like roads or soup kitchens or libraries, none of which are suitable for for-profit endeavors chasing the bottom line. When you think about it, how can private, for-profit prisons be legal? It doesn't make sense. At times, he almost reached the breaking point, and for good reason. In order to gather research, journalist Shane Bauer spent four months posing undercover as a prison guard at a private, for-profit prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. But this book opened my eyes and completely shocked me out of my hazy stupor. I confess I didn't know much about prisons before cracking open American Prison, and I hadn't given much thought to what life is like inside them.
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