Welcome back to our book series, On the Same Page. This week we're discussing the award winning, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer.
In this non-fiction novel, Bauer, an investigative reporter for Mother Jones magazine, decides to dig into America's prison-for-profit system. As a sneak peak, we were not ready for the bluntness, racial inequitities, and the present-day realities that were detailed in this book.