Reporter Shane Bauer's 4 months as a prison guard for Mother Jones

Investigative journalist, Shane Bauer spent four months undercover as a guard in a prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America. He wrote about his experience and the changes taking place in the private prison sector for Mother Jones.

In 2014 Mother Jones senior reporter Shane Bauer did something that the magazine had never attempted with one it's writers: he went undercover as a corrections officer at a Louisiana prison.

Here's a link to the article. The prison is a for-profit institution, run by the Corrections Corporation of America, in the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana.

CCA is the country's second-largest private prison company. Bauer wrote about his experience and the changes taking place in that sector.

Here's a video created by Mother Jones about his report:

Bauer's investigation is also the subject of the latest episode of the podcast Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, and SCPR will begin airing Reveal every Monday at 9:00 PM.

Bauer spoke with Take Two. To hear the whole interview, click on the blue player above.