Watch: Tensions Rise Inside a Private Prison

The fourth episode of the video series “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard.”


In December 2014, Mother Jones senior reporter Shane Bauer started a job as a corrections officer at a Louisiana prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the country’s second-largest private prison company. During his four months on the job, Bauer would witness stabbings, an escape, lockdowns, and an intervention by the state Department of Corrections as the company struggled to maintain control. Read Bauer’s gripping firsthand account here.

Bauer’s investigation is also the subject of a six-part video series produced by Mother Jones senior digital editor James West. In the fourth episode, Bauer reports on violence and rising tensions at Winn Correctional Center.

Also: Watch episodes one, two, and three.

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