Mother Jones Reporter Moonlights as a Prison Guard

Chapter 1: "Inmates Run This Bitch."

In late 2014 and early 2015, Shane Bauer worked as a prison guard at a private facility in Louisiana owned by Corrections Corporation of America. As Mother Jones editor in chief Clara Jeffery explains, this assignment was not arranged illicitly:

Bauer used his own name and Social Security number, and he noted his employment with the Foundation for National Progress, the publisher of Mother Jones. He did not lie. He spent four months as a guard at a CCA-run Louisiana prison, and then we spent 14 more months reporting and fact-checking.

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