"American Prison" author Shane Bauer highlights a few key moments in the history of prison-as-profit in America, drawing from research he conducted for the book.

Moises Humberto Rivera-Luna helped reign over the violent street gang MS-13 in the US out of a prison cell in El Salvador, ...

They were American tourists hoping for a good time, they said. Then they became captives of an autocratic government.

But Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and James Sabatino have spent more than five years in side-by-side cells – segregated from all ...