

So if them fools want to cut each other, well, happy cutting.”īauer earned $9 per hour during his employment at Louisiana’s Winn Correctional Center in 2015. The only thing that’s important to us is that we go home at the end of the day.

“The next raise you get is not going to be much more than the one you got last time.

“We are not going to pay you that much,” Bauer recounts the man saying. Break up the fight? Call for backup? No - just yell at them to stop, and if they don’t, they don’t. On Shane Bauer’s second day of training for his new job as a prison guard, the head of the prison’s tactical team asked the group what a cadet should do if one inmate stabs another. Journalist Shane Bauer’s investigation into a private prison corporation, a 35,000-word behemoth published in Mother Jones in 2016, is a testament to the power and necessity of undercover reporting.
