![]() ![]() After a couple of years “circling the wagon,” as Bauer calls it, he decided to apply for a job as a guard with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which as of 2015 was America’s largest private corrections company. Instead of returning to the Middle East full time, as he had intended, his reporting lens began to refocus on prisons closer to home.īauer quickly learned that prisons - especially those run by private companies - are secretive and suspicious of reporters. He and the two others, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal eventually wrote a book about their experience, A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Tehran.Īfter returning home to the Bay Area, Bauer heard about the conditions of California prisoners living in solitary confinement - something he had experienced in Tehran. Bauer spent the next two years in an Iranian prison. In 2009, when he was a freelance journalist living in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iranian border guards arrested him and two others when they accidentally crossed into the country on a hiking trip. ![]()
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