Podcast Episodes featuring Shane Bauer
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American Prison: Interview with Shane Bauer
Bay Area Book Festival Podcast - July 04, 2019 16:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAfter being detained in a notorious Iranian prison, Shane Bauer returned to journalism and took on an astonishing assignment: to go undercover as a guard in a private prison in Louisiana. His book “American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment” was one of Pres...
Shane Bauer's Undercover Reporting from Inside a Private Prison
Library Talks - April 21, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 301 ratingsGoing undercover as a prison guard in Winnifield, Louisiana, journalist Shane Bauer exposes the brutality of for-profit private prison systems, and this country's history of outsourcing criminal punishment in his book "American Prison." This stunning work recently won NYPL's 2019 Bernstein Award...
Amanpour: William Burns, Evan Thomas and Shane Bauer
Amanpour - March 19, 2019 21:28 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratingsWilliam Burns, the veteran U.S. diplomat and author of "The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy" joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss President Bolsonaro of Brazil and President Trump's press conference at The White House. Author Evan Thomas talks about his book "First: Sandra Day O'Conn...
Shane Bauer
Town Hall Seattle Civics Series - October 10, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. There was no meaningful background check, and he used his real name despite his notoriety as an award-winning investigative journalist. Four months later he had seen ...
Shane Bauer
Slate Conversations - September 14, 2018 14:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 179 ratingsShane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones whose new book is American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss his four months as a guard at a private prison in Louisiana, and what he learned about the American sy...
I Have to Ask: Shane Bauer
Slate Daily Feed - September 14, 2018 14:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 1K ratingsShane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones whose new book is American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss his four months as a guard at a private prison in Louisiana, and what he learned about the American sy...
Ep. 4 I Went Undercover with a Border Militia w/ Shane Bauer, Mother Jones
Deep Reporting Journalism Pod - March 30, 2018 18:49 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsShane Bauer of Mother Jones jumps on the show to discuss his experiences in writing, 'I Went Undercover with a Border Militia.' Here is the link to the story: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/undercover-border-militia-immigration-bauer/ I highly recommend reading the story, THEN com...
BONUS! Phoebe Robinson, Lindy West, Shane Bauer-Live at Clusterfest
Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu - July 06, 2017 07:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.5K ratingsComing to you LIVE from San Francisco, it’s Politically Re-Active at Comedy Central’s Clusterfest! Joining your favorite hosts on stage are comedian and podcast queen Phoebe Robinson, the brilliantly witty writer (and This American Life favorite) Lindy West, and our favorite undercover investiga...
Episode 81 - The Devil In Mother Jones feat. Shane Bauer (2/12/17)
Chapo Trap House - February 13, 2017 01:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8.4K ratings2017 Magazine of the Year Award-winning journalist Shane Bauer (@Shane_Bauer) joins us to talk about the protests in Berkeley, his work embedding with rightwing militias, and his time spent as a prisoner in Iran. We took the award from him and now we are award-winners. Here are some of Shane's a...
Private Prisons with Shane Bauer
Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu - June 30, 2016 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.5K ratingsWe still have a show!Mother Jones journalist Shane Bauer joins hosts W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu to talk about his recent and crazy article about working as a guard at a private prison in Louisiana for four months. You may recognize his name as one of the American hikers held in an Iranian p...
Bonus Episode: Shane Bauer
Longform - June 27, 2016 18:18 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsShane Bauer, a senior reporter for Mother Jones, spent four months working undercover as a guard in a private prison. “The thing that I grappled with the most afterward was a feeling of shame about who I was as a guard and some of the things that I had done. Sending people to solitary confineme...
Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd, “A Sliver of Light” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)
New Books Network - November 10, 2014 12:14 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 119 ratingsIn the summer of 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly crossed into Iran and were captured by a border patrol. Accused of espionage, the three Americans ultimately found themselves in Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison, where they disco...