Why Some Privately Run Prisons Get Away With Inmate Abuse

Seth Freed Wessler, senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and contributor to The Nation, investigated the privately run prisons in the United States where non-citizens are held, and where inadequate, abusive conditions have led to dozens of preventable inmate deaths. In “This Man Will Certainly Die,” his cover story for The Nation, he examined why these private facilities do not have to follow the federal standards.