Bauman, a small woman with long red hair, is the warden of Alger Correctional Facility in Michigan’s upper peninsula, a remote prison near Lake Superior, just across from Canada. She’s hard to miss; the staff are mostly husky white men from nearby small towns, and the inmates are mostly black men from urban areas hundreds of miles away. In the summer of 2009, Bauman had been warden for less than a year when her bosses at the Michigan Department of Corrections—in the wake of a lawsuit over a prisoner’s death in an isolation cell—asked prisons throughout the state to come up with ways to reduce the number of prisoners held in what the department calls “administrative segregation,” or “seg.”
[For more of this story, written by Maurice Chammah, go to https://www.themarshallproject...y-one-step-at-a-time]
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