Shane Bauer, a senior reporter for Mother Jones, spent four months working undercover as a guard in a private prison.\n\n \u201cThe 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 confinement is hard to come to terms with even though, in that situation, I don't know what else I could have done. ... I had to do what I could to keep myself safe.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@shane_bauer\nshanebauer.net\nBauer on Longform\n[7:00] ABC News v. Food Lion\n[7:45] Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing (Ted Conover \u2022\xa0Vintage \u2022 2000)\n[19:30] "Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons." (Mother Jones \u2022 Oct 2012)\n[46:30] "The Man Inside" (Reveal \u2022 June 2016)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices