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Bianca Tylek

@biancatylek.bsky.social
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Executive Director at Worth Rises | The prison industry hates me. It’s mutual. Comfortable in conflict. | Views my own

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
When the cost barrier to communication is removed, families are stronger. 82% of families & 93% of incarcerated people agree free calls help rebuild relationships. This is Finding 3: Stronger Families of our new report. Visit connectfamiliesnow.com/poweroffree.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Nearly half of people in prisons are parents to children, and 18% of those children are four years old or younger. See how free calls help children. This is Finding 4 of our new report: Parenting & Child Development. Visit connectfamiliesnow.com/poweroffree.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
76% of incarcerated people, 77% of family members, and all correctional staff reported improvements in stress, emotional stability, or overall wellbeing once calls became free. This is Finding 5 of our new report: Improved Health. Visit connectfamiliesnow.com/poweroffree.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Phones are one of the most volatile places in the prison. With free communication, there's less tension, meaning fewer conflicts and disciplinary infractions. This is Finding 6 of our new report: Calmer & Safer Facilities. Visit connectfamiliesnow.com/poweroffree.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
When people can stay connected to those who love them — and imagine a life after incarceration — they’re more likely to invest in their own growth. This is Finding 7 of our new report: Rehabilitation. Visit connectfamiliesnow.com/poweroffree.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Families have already saved more than $622 million thanks to free communication policies in prisons and jails. That's money for groceries, rent, and futures they couldn't plan before. This is Finding 2: Financial Relief of our new report. Visit connectfamiliesnow.com/poweroffree.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Thanks to free calling policies, incarcerated people made nearly 600 million more calls, totaling 6.4 billion mins, than they otherwise would. Call usage jumped 80% in prisons and doubled in jails. This is Finding 1: Increased Connection of our new report. Visit connectfamiliesnow.com/poweroffree.
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is the culmination of 8 years of work, and I couldn’t feel more grateful for what we’ve been able to do at Worth Rise. I remember our first Connecting Families campaign in NYC, and our belief that this was right. Today, the data couldn’t be clearer: free communication changes everything.
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Books On Call NYC @booksoncallnyc.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Learn more about the prison system tonight with author and criminal justice advocate Bianca Tylek (@biancatylek.bsky.social @worthrises.bsky.social) as she discusses her book, "The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits" (published @thenewpress.bsky.social) at The Maison Projects.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
GOOD NEWS! Private prison GEO Group tried to avoid trial for unjustly withholding wages from immigrant detainees by appealing to SCOTUS, claiming it should be afforded government immunity as a contractor. The Court just UNANIMOUSLY ruled against GEO Group. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Supreme Court deals setback to ICE detention contractor in fight over detainee work
The justices denied GEO Group’s bid to toss out a lawsuit claiming prisoners in Colorado were illegally forced to work.
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Second Chance Federation @ncsecondchance.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Durham & Asheville friends - @biancatylek.bsky.social of Worth Rises is coming to NC this week to discuss her new book, The Prison Industry: How it Works and Who Profits. Join her and special guests on Wednesday in Durham and Thursday in Asheville. Both events are free to attend!
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Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
'The Prison Industry' from @biancatylek.bsky.social @worthrises.bsky.social @thenewpress.bsky.social is recommended in our Year in Books by our EIC Andrew Crespo: "In this book, Tylek and Worth Rises offer the movement to end mass incarceration a critically helpful tool."
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The Year in Books - Inquest
Inquest staff recommendations of not-to-be-missed decarceral books from 2025.
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Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"Correctional administrators outsource food service to corporations to reduce facility operating costs, with detrimental consequences." @biancatylek.bsky.social @worthrises.bsky.social
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Not Fit for Human Consumption - Bianca Tylek & Worth Rises - Inquest
Carceral facilities serve bad food as a way to cut costs. Providing this inhumane service is now a hugely profitable sector of Wall Street.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
TAKE ACTION! Elevatus Architecture and Okland Construction have been contracted by Idaho to design a new firing squad execution chamber. Help us demand they withdraw from this contract to stop this before it’s built. THREAD
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I don't have words. Idaho is building a chamber for firing squad executions and this is how the architects and contractors are discussing the project. They're accounting for blood drainage and blown out eardrums, but not asking, "why are we doing this?" Who are the monsters now?
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO @broadbandbreakfast.bsky.social NOW. We just learned that this niche media outlet covering technology, trusted by many, is actually sponsored by Securus, which is currently on a propaganda campaign. They're being paid to platform them and their perspective. Damn shame.
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beckytaylor927.bsky.social @beckytaylor927.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
If you come to my house on Halloween, kids will get candy and adults will get a candy with a free zine illustrated by @meganpiont.bsky.social
A pile of Maryland edition zines of How to Report Ice to Help Keep Your Neighbors Safe.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 28/10/2025
In the U.S., we use prisoners as a source of income for the powerful, because our prison system originated with our chattel slavery system. This rate increase approval is the intentional result of that system, fought for by sheriffs and wardens and state legislators and huge corporations.
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
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F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
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Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"Families will have to pay $215 million more to stay connected than anticipated last year, and there’s expected to be two-thirds fewer call minutes between families and their incarcerated loved ones due to the higher rates." @biancatylek.bsky.social @worthrises.bsky.social
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Your Call Could Not Be Completed - Bianca Tylek - Inquest
Under Biden, the FCC made unprecedented progress toward ending price gouging for prison phone calls. Tomorrow, Trump’s FCC is expected to undo it all.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Tomorrow, the FCC is set to rollback a large portion of the regulations it passed unanimously with bipartisan support last year. Families will pay $215M more annually than anticipated. Worth Rises ED @biancatylek.bsky.social explains it all in @inquest.bsky.social inquest.org/your-call-co...
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Your Call Could Not Be Completed - Bianca Tylek - Inquest
Under Biden, the FCC made unprecedented progress toward ending price gouging for prison phone calls. Tomorrow, Trump’s FCC is expected to undo it all.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
To prevent thousands more avoidable deaths, Centurion, Wexford, and Corizon’s deadly, profit-driven “healthcare” practices cannot continue as usual. theharvardpoliticalreview.com/health-care-...
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A Healthcare Crisis Behind Bars - Harvard Political Review
Prisoners don’t get to choose their healthcare provider. With no alternatives, it is quite perverse that the only avenue of treatment available to them is one that makes them sicker.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This breakdown of the $170B increase in immigration spending to jail and cage people now rivals military budgets of entire countries. “We’re in a dark place,” says @biancatylek.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/45azkrj5
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In data: Under Trump, immigration enforcement spending to explode | Context by TRF
More U.S. federal funds are to be spent on immigration enforcement and ICE as part of Trump's crackdown
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“Private prison needs more bodies to grow. Corporations have no place in any system that claims to be about justice,” @biancatylek.bsky.social on mass detention being treated as business. bit.ly/4g4qrQN
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Trump’s Immigrant Gulags: A Bonanza For Private Prison Corporations
When it comes to for-profit, private corporate incarceration of immigrants, making lots of money is like drinking salt water, the more they drink, the thirstier they get. Roman proverbs say that the m...
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
In GEO Group v. Menocal, a private contractor for ICE is claiming derivative sovereign immunity for allegedly forcing detainees to perform unpaid labor under the threat of punishment, including solitary confinement. #legal www.scotusblog.com/2025/08/the-...
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The dissent that became a constitutional amendment
In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country.  Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect […]
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
People are fighting back and we love to see it! Sure, they lost and this west TN town went forward with ICE and private prison contracts, but this energy is critical right now. FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT. We will win. tennesseelookout.com/2025/08/13/w...
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West Tenn. town approves CoreCivic to run immigration detention facility after chaotic meeting • Tennessee Lookout
Officials in the small West Tennessee town of Mason on Tuesday approved a contract with private prison corporation CoreCivic to operate the former West Tennessee Detention Facility as an immigration d...
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The CEO of ICE's data contractor Palantir thinks that people who disagree with him should "suffer". Explains a lot.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
“90% detained by ICE are held in privately run facilities, making the private prison industry deeply embedded in the federal immigration detention system” shared @biancatylek.bsky.social as new corporate vendors profit from Trump-backed $45B immigration expansion. bit.ly/4mAYUbO
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Private Prison Companies Profit from ICE Raids and Detention under Trump - Davis Vanguard
Bianca Tylek has raised concerns about the expansion of private prison corporations profiting from the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies, which has led to longer detention period...
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Incarcerated people deserve real food–not the inedible, unhealthy meals dished out by million-dollar private corporations cutting corners while people suffer serious health problems. tinyurl.com/4mz5f6z6
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State's prison food contract canceled over nutritional deficiencies
Oklahoma’s $74 million deal to privatize food service in state prisons was canceled because the selected vendor failed to meet nutritional standards. Aramark, the sole competing bidder, alleged that T...
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Some GOOD NEWS for a change! This one is personal — it’s been a long time in the making. Thank you to all those who helped along the way.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
"The Prison Industry maps the range of ways in which private corporations, often with their government partners, make money off incarceration. It further details the gross extraction of wealth from incarcerated people ... brutalized by over-policing, mass incarceration, and mass surveillance."
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“The ICE custody transportation industry is run by ‘a handful of large conglomerates notorious for varied types of abuses across the world,’” @biancatylek.bsky.social People disappear, suffer harm, and even die while in ICE custody. worthrises.org/jointhefight capitalbnews.org/black-immigr...
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After a DUI Stop, He Vanished Into the ICE System
Black immigrant families are being left in the dark as ICE moves loved ones from state to state.
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The state of correctional healthcare is in crisis with 3 major private providers filing for bankruptcy due to lawsuits in the past 2 yrs. It’s time we shift back to a public option. Here’s one jail doing it after its provider filled only 20% of positions. provincetownindependent.org/featured/202...
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Barnstable County Jail Has Brought Health Care In-House - The Provincetown Independent
PROVINCETOWN — When Barnstable County Sheriff Donna Buckley announced her campaign for that office in March 2022, she told the Independent that “the sheriff’s responsibility is not to do law […]
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Tune into @wetwired.bsky.social’s podcast featuring @biancatylek.bsky.social as she discusses The Prison Industry book and how the carceral system profits from exploitation without delivering justice: bit.ly/4kt9d09
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Culture, control, and empire
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Here’s an excerpt from my book The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits. Get your copy for you and a friend today. Worthrises.org/theprisonindustry
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Worth Rises — The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The executives at the nation’s largest private prison operator, GEO Group, are wasting no time in upping compensation and cashing in on the immigration detention and deportation boom. www.investing.com/news/sec-fil...
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Geo Group extends executive chairman contract, raises bonuses for top officers By Investing.com
Geo Group extends executive chairman contract, raises bonuses for top officers
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This defies all logic, and I explain why below. But it does continue the wealth grab that defines the Trump Administration. A thread.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Politicians are being targeted for ensuring proper regulations on reopening detention centers like CoreCivic where people are suffering from abuse and neglect. kansasreflector.com/2025/06/16/d...
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Dark money ads target Kansas mayor after town pushed back against private prison • Kansas Reflector
A PAC targeted Leavenworth’s mayor on social media in May for her “liberal agenda,” accusing her of holding back progress.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
See if you can spot the difference between New York Times propaganda and the Israeli press. I know it’s subtle, let me know if you can’t figure it out.
NYT vaguely describing Palestinian deaths while Haaretz describes “killing fields” of Israeli troops murdering people seeking aid.
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Abelardo is the 1st person in ICE custody to die in transit in 10 years. Families are demanding answers from the private prison, transportation contractor, and healthcare provider. Sadly, there will be more. I explain why in my new book: The Prison Industry. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Ticking time bomb’: Ice detainee dies in transit as experts say more deaths likely
Guardian reporting reveals confusing and contradictory events surrounding death of Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This Juneteenth, remember that slavery is still legal in the US. Just look on prison farms, often former plantations, where incarcerated people are still toiling in dangerous conditions for no pay. worthrises.org/blogpost/202...
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Worth Rises — Prison Labor in Agriculture: People in prison are picking cotton on former plantations in dangerous conditions for no pay
No image draws a more obvious connection between chattel slavery and mass incarceration in the United States than that of Black men toiling in fields under the watch of armed overseers on horseback at...
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
It is the EPA’s responsibility to protect against human rights violations, including hazardous chemicals being used as punishment. We cannot let GEO Group’s abuse in detention centers slide. bit.ly/4ndTLaP
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Trump EPA Drops Case Against GEO Group Over Disinfectant Misuse in ICE Jail
The complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged over 1,000 employee uses of the chemical without proper protection.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
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Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"
YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
ALERT! No one is talking about the uprisings happening at private prisons across the country while Trump is expanding their use. Just this week there was one at a CoreCivic prison in TN and GEO Group detention center in NJ, both over appalling conditions. This is about to get a lot worse.
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
While protests rage across the country, some counties are cashing in on the violent ICE raids. Adams County, MS just negotiated higher fees from a private prison operator for access to its intergovernmental agreement with ICE for the detention of immigrants. www.natchezdemocrat.com/2025/06/03/c...
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County’s fee for housing immigrants at CoreCivic facility doubles - Mississippi's Best Community Newspaper
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NATCHEZ — Adams County is in line to receive double the amount of money it has in the past per prisoner at the Adams County Correctional Center. The facility...
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Wetwired Podcast @wetwired.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We talked with @biancatylek.bsky.social, founder and director of ‪@worthrises.bsky.social‬ about financial exploitation and slavery in prisons and her recent book, The Prison Industry – How It Works and Who Profits. Listen wherever pod.link/1593022493/e...
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
It’s been 2 months since The Prison Industry came out, and I’ve been on the road nearly the whole time getting out the word. Have you gotten your copy yet? Post a photo! worthrises.org/theprisonindustry
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 14/04/2025
Are the brands you buy profiting from prisons? Through painstaking research that tracks and exposes the profiteers of the criminal justice establishment, the abolitionist organization @worthrises.bsky.social seeks to end the exploitation of incarcerated people and their families.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
GEO Group, one of the largest private prison corporations in the country, is aiding in the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda by providing surveillance technology to ICE. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/t...
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How Geo Group’s Surveillance Tech Is Aiding Trump’s Immigration Agenda
Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations.
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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
BREAKING! For years, we worked to drive prison telecom Securus (aka Aventiv) into bankruptcy. Well, this week, its owner, Platinum Equity, did it out of court, simply bowing out, waving the white flag, and handing it over to lenders after defaulting on $1.6Bn in debt. Stay tuned for what this means.
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