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Journalist Shane Bauer, author of American Prison, took viewer phone calls on the prison system. This program was part of the 11th annual Tucson Festival of Books.

Authors Shane Bauer, American Prison; Lara Bazelon, Rectify, Albert Woodfox, Solitary; and Margaret Regan, Detained and Deported discussed the criminal justice system. They spoke at the 11th…

Shane Bauer, author of American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, and Debra Jo Immergut, author of Captives, discussed the prison system in the United …

Mother Jones senior reporter Shane Bauer offered an inside look at American prisons after spending four months working undercover as a corrections officer in a Louisiana prison.

Panelists talked about private and public prisons and their impact on incarceration and society. Mother Jones sent reporter Shane Bauer, who was part of the panel discussion, to Louisiana as…

Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd talked about their book, A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran, in which they tell their story of being captured and imprisoned b…

Panelists talked about uses for Twitter, and answered questions from audience members. Some of the uses they discussed were journalism, politics, revolutions, and frivolity. Panelists includ…