• The hardback edition received glowing reviews from New York Times Review of Books and Barbara Ehrenreich, among others.
• Investigative journalism at its very finest, with Bauer's style being uniquely gripping and urgent.
• Relevant to current debates: privately-run prisons are consistently ranked as the worst of the worst in America
• Politically relevant: current USA government struggles to hold for-profit prisons to account about treatment of inmates.
• the author is recipient of over twenty awards including national magazine award for best reporting.