Bianca Tylek
@biancatylek.bsky.social
Executive Director at Worth Rises | The prison industry hates me. It’s mutual. comfortable in conflict. | Views my own
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Bianca Tylek
@biancatylek.bsky.social
· Apr 5
NEW BOOK! I think I forgot to tell everyone that I wrote a book. It’s the longest thread about the prison industry I’ve ever written, and it’s out this week. I’m honored by the response so far. Please get a copy!
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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
October 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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
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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.
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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.
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
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"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
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.
inquest.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"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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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...
Worth Rises ED @biancatylek.bsky.social explains it all in @inquest.bsky.social
inquest.org/your-call-co...
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.
inquest.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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...
Worth Rises ED @biancatylek.bsky.social explains it all in @inquest.bsky.social
inquest.org/your-call-co...
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To prevent thousands more avoidable deaths, Centurion, Wexford, and Corizon’s deadly, profit-driven “healthcare” practices cannot continue as usual. theharvardpoliticalreview.com/health-care-...
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.
theharvardpoliticalreview.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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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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
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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August 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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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“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
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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September 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“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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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-...
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 […]
www.scotusblog.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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-...
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...
tennesseelookout.com/2025/08/13/w...
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...
tennesseelookout.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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...
tennesseelookout.com/2025/08/13/w...
The CEO of ICE's data contractor Palantir thinks that people who disagree with him should "suffer". Explains a lot.
“Palantir gets attacked because we help make this country even better, because we support the values, because we defend it... The people who think we are wrong are not good, have to be a little jealous and suffer.” - CEO of ICE data contractor Palantir
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Companies aiding Trump’s immigration crackdown see ‘extraordinary’ revenues
Palantir, Geo Group and CoreCivic, cogs in president’s enormous detention and deportation machinery, report ‘unprecedented growth’
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The CEO of ICE's data contractor Palantir thinks that people who disagree with him should "suffer". Explains a lot.
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“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
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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August 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“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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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
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...
www.alvareviewcourier.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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
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.
BREAKING HUGE WIN! 🚨 New York just announced that phone calls will soon be FREE in New York prisons, bringing around $13 million in relief annually to incarcerated people and their families. The new policy is expected to go into effect on August 1st. Spread the news!
July 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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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"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."
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
Worthrises.org/theprisonindustry
July 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"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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“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
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People disappear, suffer harm, and even die while in ICE custody. worthrises.org/jointhefight
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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.
capitalbnews.org
July 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“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...
People disappear, suffer harm, and even die while in ICE custody. worthrises.org/jointhefight
capitalbnews.org/black-immigr...
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...
Here’s one jail doing it after its provider filled only 20% of positions.
provincetownindependent.org/featured/202...
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 […]
provincetownindependent.org
July 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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...
Here’s one jail doing it after its provider filled only 20% of positions.
provincetownindependent.org/featured/202...
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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
@biancatylek.bsky.social as she discusses The Prison Industry book and how the carceral system profits from exploitation without delivering justice: bit.ly/4kt9d09
Wetwired
Culture, control, and empire
bit.ly
July 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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
@biancatylek.bsky.social as she discusses The Prison Industry book and how the carceral system profits from exploitation without delivering justice: bit.ly/4kt9d09
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
Worthrises.org/theprisonindustry
July 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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
Worthrises.org/theprisonindustry
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...
www.investing.com/news/sec-fil...
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
www.investing.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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...
www.investing.com/news/sec-fil...
This defies all logic, and I explain why below. But it does continue the wealth grab that defines the Trump Administration.
A thread.
A thread.
BREAKING 🚨 In a move that protects financial interests and ignores the law and will of Congress, the FCC just delayed the implementation of new regulations that would lower prison and jail call rates by 2 years. The rules were set to save families over $500 million per year. Shameful.
July 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This defies all logic, and I explain why below. But it does continue the wealth grab that defines the Trump Administration.
A thread.
A thread.
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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...
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.
kansasreflector.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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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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.
June 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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.
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...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘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
www.theguardian.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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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...
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...
worthrises.org
June 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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...