PositiveBook Post...[a] celebrated book ... Bauer’s investigation had some effect: CCA lost its contract to operate Winn Correctional Facility, where Bauer worked ... The rural people who resort to working with him in corrections at Winn sound universally unfortunate ... These are sad portraits, but sometimes they are sympathetic. The inmates, on the other hand, are not so sympathetic ... I wondered whether a conscious editorial decision had been made to ignore any brightness there might have been in that prison, or if Bauer’s uniformly bad news was an unconscious consequence of assuming the guard role, putting the inmates somewhere beyond the reach of fellow feeling ... Bauer’s book reminds us that the real criminals in the story are in corporate.
