My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: Part Four

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. Bauer's gripping, revelatory investigation is the cover story in Mother Jones' July/August 2016 issue. Read the full story here: http://www.motherjones.com/prison In the fourth episode of Mother Jones's exclusive six-part video series, Bauer reports on violence and rising tensions at at Winn .