amy: paul mason, thank you for being with us, journalist and filmmaker. his recent opinion piece for the guardian is headlined "corbyn , delivered the labour vote for remain -- so let's get behind him." mason's new book is "postcapitalism: a guide to our , future." when we come back, mother jones has devoted its hold next issue to an undercover investigation of a louisianaor-profit prison run by the corrections corporation of america. an unusual independent journalist went undercover. his name is shane bauer. he was in a prison -- well, he was imprisoned in iran for two years. and now he has come back to serve as a prison guard to investigate the prison. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "between the wars" by billy bragg. you can go to democracynow.org to see her interviews with the british rocker. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn to a stunning new expose and mother jones magazine, looking inside the world of privately run prisons. >> no structure. unsafe. just a bad place. hell. in a can. crazy.

paul mccartney wrote to congress asking for help against youtube. they say the site is cutting into their profits. and they want it stopped. anthony masonnow we have bad blood >> reporter: the reason for bad blood with youtube isn't artist uploads of official videos, it's other whose use copy right music in unapproved, underscoring a sad looking ben affleck with the sound of silence. ♪ and the vision that was planted in my brain ♪ >> reporter: more than 180 artists from taylor swift to paul mccartney to lady gaga signed an open letter to congress asking for change, "the existing laws threaten the continued viability of songwriters and recording artists to survive from creation of music." enacted in 1998, digital millennium copy right act gives services like you tube a safe harbor from copy right infringement liabilities as long as they move quickly to remove protected content. artists say services like youtube are overprotect add lug major tech companies to grow and generate huge profits while artists earnings continue to diminish. musician trent resner went further saying youtube is built on the backs of free stolen content. >> artists