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Worth Rises — The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits
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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.
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F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
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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.
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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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"Families impacted by incarceration have spent years advocating to reduce the extortionary cost of prison phone calls. Tomorrow Trump’s FCC is expected to vote on revised regulations that would unravel" all recent progress. @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 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"Families impacted by incarceration have spent years advocating to reduce the extortionary cost of prison phone calls. Tomorrow Trump’s FCC is expected to vote on revised regulations that would unravel" all recent progress. @biancatylek.bsky.social @worthrises.bsky.social
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...
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-...
NaphCare is part of a cycle of private healthcare contractors cutting corners, settling preventable deaths, and then declaring bankruptcy. Publicly run carceral healthcare isn't perfect, but it doesn't put profits over people. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
Spokane County settles with jail contractor over reimbursement related to wrongful death ruling
Spokane County will receive more than $731,000 as part of a settlement with the contractor that formerly provided medical services within county detention facilities.
www.spokesman.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
NaphCare is part of a cycle of private healthcare contractors cutting corners, settling preventable deaths, and then declaring bankruptcy. Publicly run carceral healthcare isn't perfect, but it doesn't put profits over people. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
GEO Group’s chairman celebrates new ICE partnership that expands surveillance, putting detained immigrants at greater risk. For them it’s business, while lives are on the line. bit.ly/3IVSyWb
GEO Group wins two-year ICE contract for immigration monitoring services
The GEO Group Inc. (NYSE: GEO) announced that its subsidiary BI Incorporated received a contract from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for continued services under the Intensive Supervision Ap...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
GEO Group’s chairman celebrates new ICE partnership that expands surveillance, putting detained immigrants at greater risk. For them it’s business, while lives are on the line. bit.ly/3IVSyWb
“The 13th Amendment did not abolish slavery – it revised it and shrouded it in secrecy.” @biancatylek.bsky.social's new op-ed on forced prison labor exploiting $18.8B from incarcerated workers.
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Prison labour: the last stronghold of slavery in the US
Black Americans are disproportionately incarcerated and exploited with prison labour. It’s time to finish abolition
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September 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“The 13th Amendment did not abolish slavery – it revised it and shrouded it in secrecy.” @biancatylek.bsky.social's new op-ed on forced prison labor exploiting $18.8B from incarcerated workers.
tinyurl.com/3py7n7yj
tinyurl.com/3py7n7yj
We stand alongside 15,000 people, 100 orgs, and Congress, urging the FCC to protect prison calls. Every delay means money stolen from families. connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay
tinyurl.com/57su8w64
tinyurl.com/57su8w64
Advocates Urge FCC to Reverse Decision on Prison Phone Call Rates - Davis Vanguard
Nearly 15,000 individuals and over 100 organizations are urging the FCC to reinstate caps on prison phone rates after the agency suspended protections earlier this summer.
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September 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We stand alongside 15,000 people, 100 orgs, and Congress, urging the FCC to protect prison calls. Every delay means money stolen from families. connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay
tinyurl.com/57su8w64
tinyurl.com/57su8w64
Demand the FCC keep the rate caps they passed. Congress and over 14,000 families have called for fair prison phone rates — yet delays continue. It’s time to #StopTheDelay and lower the cost of staying connected. TAKE ACTION: connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay
bit.ly/4pvy8Ut
bit.ly/4pvy8Ut
FCC Plans October Vote to Revisit Prison Phone Rate Caps
Move sets up clash with nearly 100 advocacy groups, state AGs, and lawmakers backing protections.
bit.ly
September 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Demand the FCC keep the rate caps they passed. Congress and over 14,000 families have called for fair prison phone rates — yet delays continue. It’s time to #StopTheDelay and lower the cost of staying connected. TAKE ACTION: connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay
bit.ly/4pvy8Ut
bit.ly/4pvy8Ut
It should be considered outrageous that GeoGroup’s George Zoley pitches immigration detention and family separations to investors as a profit “opportunity” to boost the company’s stock. Yet this is seen as business as usual by far too many.
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The house that ICE built
Geo Group, America's largest for-profit jailer of immigrants, is preparing for a windfall under Trump. Its chairman is an immigrant himself.
bit.ly
September 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
It should be considered outrageous that GeoGroup’s George Zoley pitches immigration detention and family separations to investors as a profit “opportunity” to boost the company’s stock. Yet this is seen as business as usual by far too many.
bit.ly/3KbHzIz
bit.ly/3KbHzIz
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¿Y dónde hay trabajo forzoso? En las prisiones.
'La esclavitud no es solo la historia del sistema carcelario estadounidense. Es su presente', dice @biancatylek.bsky.social
Acá el artículo completo en @opendemocracy.net
@worthrises.bsky.social s.bsky.social
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'La esclavitud no es solo la historia del sistema carcelario estadounidense. Es su presente', dice @biancatylek.bsky.social
Acá el artículo completo en @opendemocracy.net
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www.opendemocracy.net/es/democraci...
Prisiones: último bastión de la esclavitud en EEUU
Los afroestadounidenses son encarcelados de manera desproporcionada y explotados con trabajo penitenciario. Es hora de completar la abolición
www.opendemocracy.net
September 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
¿Y dónde hay trabajo forzoso? En las prisiones.
'La esclavitud no es solo la historia del sistema carcelario estadounidense. Es su presente', dice @biancatylek.bsky.social
Acá el artículo completo en @opendemocracy.net
@worthrises.bsky.social s.bsky.social
www.opendemocracy.net/es/democraci...
'La esclavitud no es solo la historia del sistema carcelario estadounidense. Es su presente', dice @biancatylek.bsky.social
Acá el artículo completo en @opendemocracy.net
@worthrises.bsky.social s.bsky.social
www.opendemocracy.net/es/democraci...
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¿Esclavitud en EEUU en el siglo XXI?
La 13 Enmienda que abolió la esclavitud incluyó una cláusula de excepción que permitía la esclavitud 'como castigo por un delito'
Así se conservó el fundamento jurídico para el trabajo forzoso, cuenta @biancatylek.bsky.social en @opendemocracy.net 1/2
La 13 Enmienda que abolió la esclavitud incluyó una cláusula de excepción que permitía la esclavitud 'como castigo por un delito'
Así se conservó el fundamento jurídico para el trabajo forzoso, cuenta @biancatylek.bsky.social en @opendemocracy.net 1/2
September 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
¿Esclavitud en EEUU en el siglo XXI?
La 13 Enmienda que abolió la esclavitud incluyó una cláusula de excepción que permitía la esclavitud 'como castigo por un delito'
Así se conservó el fundamento jurídico para el trabajo forzoso, cuenta @biancatylek.bsky.social en @opendemocracy.net 1/2
La 13 Enmienda que abolió la esclavitud incluyó una cláusula de excepción que permitía la esclavitud 'como castigo por un delito'
Así se conservó el fundamento jurídico para el trabajo forzoso, cuenta @biancatylek.bsky.social en @opendemocracy.net 1/2
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George Zoley, the eye-wateringly rich founder of America's biggest for-profit prison company, Geo Group, is an immigrant himself. So how has he become ICE's largest private jailer of other immigrants?
My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...
My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...
The house that ICE built
Geo Group, America's largest for-profit jailer of immigrants, is preparing for a windfall under Trump. Its chairman is an immigrant himself.
www.fastcompany.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
George Zoley, the eye-wateringly rich founder of America's biggest for-profit prison company, Geo Group, is an immigrant himself. So how has he become ICE's largest private jailer of other immigrants?
My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...
My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...
Despite being a billion-dollar corporation, Securus pressured the FCC to delay price caps so they can keep gouging families for their inflated ‘tech’ fees, exploiting primarily Black and brown families.
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Writing from my cell in the age of prison Wi-Fi
The expansion of tablets and prison Wi-Fi shows both the promise of connectivity and the cost of relying on billion-dollar contractors.
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September 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Despite being a billion-dollar corporation, Securus pressured the FCC to delay price caps so they can keep gouging families for their inflated ‘tech’ fees, exploiting primarily Black and brown families.
bit.ly/462EcMB
bit.ly/462EcMB
URGENT! With the FCC poised to further delay or reverse caps on phone call rates for prisons and jails we need you to speak out! Tell the FCC to #stopthedelay connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay
@famm.org @colorofchange.bsky.social @antirecidivism.bsky.social
@famm.org @colorofchange.bsky.social @antirecidivism.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
URGENT! With the FCC poised to further delay or reverse caps on phone call rates for prisons and jails we need you to speak out! Tell the FCC to #stopthedelay connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay
@famm.org @colorofchange.bsky.social @antirecidivism.bsky.social
@famm.org @colorofchange.bsky.social @antirecidivism.bsky.social
ICE’s 2M spyware contract with Paragon funds the direct attack on our rights. This tech allows the government to break into our phones and read our messages, calling it ‘security’. bit.ly/4gkiqr5
ICE Has Spyware Now
Plus: An AI chatbot system is linked to a widespread hack, details emerge of a US plan to plant a spy device in North Korea, your job’s security training isn’t working, and more.
bit.ly
September 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
ICE’s 2M spyware contract with Paragon funds the direct attack on our rights. This tech allows the government to break into our phones and read our messages, calling it ‘security’. bit.ly/4gkiqr5
“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...
bit.ly
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
Securus isn’t pioneering ‘justice’ solutions. Electronic monitoring is just surveillance, controlling people, racially profiling communities, and fueling mass incarceration.
tinyurl.com/yc388sp6
tinyurl.com/yc388sp6
Securus Monitoring Showcases BLUtag® and VeriTracks® as Gold Standard in Community Corrections Technology at APPA's 50th Annual Conference
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August 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Securus isn’t pioneering ‘justice’ solutions. Electronic monitoring is just surveillance, controlling people, racially profiling communities, and fueling mass incarceration.
tinyurl.com/yc388sp6
tinyurl.com/yc388sp6
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
Calling electronic monitoring 18M immigrants a ‘market opportunity’ is deplorable. Catch @biancatylek.bsky.social on Bad Faith discuss the prison industry's role in immigration crackdowns.
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CRIME LIES Lead to CRACK DOWN in DC, For Profit Prisons Win (w/ Alex Karatkatsanis & Bianca Tylek)
YouTube video by Bad Faith
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August 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Calling electronic monitoring 18M immigrants a ‘market opportunity’ is deplorable. Catch @biancatylek.bsky.social on Bad Faith discuss the prison industry's role in immigration crackdowns.
youtube.com/watch?v=D1AFu06JdMc
youtube.com/watch?v=D1AFu06JdMc
Many are enduring deadly conditions when prison safety measures are deemed a financial ‘burden’, while profit-driven corporations advocate for ‘tough on crime’ policies to fill beds. tinyurl.com/3y73xw7v
Extreme heat in prisons brings more legal challenges, pressure on states • Ohio Capital Journal
Summer heat is bearing down on U.S. prisons, where temperatures in uncooled cells can climb well into the triple digits. While some states try to make the situation better, in other states efforts hav...
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August 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Many are enduring deadly conditions when prison safety measures are deemed a financial ‘burden’, while profit-driven corporations advocate for ‘tough on crime’ policies to fill beds. tinyurl.com/3y73xw7v
Stop funding prison construction that profits corporations, leaves facilities abandoned, and drains public dollars long-term. We're working on ending the cycle by dismantling the prison industry. tinyurl.com/3nd955fu
The Good Things We Could Do With Our Closed Prisons
We could save billions by transforming these shuttered monuments to mass incarceration into something far more useful, humane and fiscally responsible. What the military did decades ago offers a prove...
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August 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Stop funding prison construction that profits corporations, leaves facilities abandoned, and drains public dollars long-term. We're working on ending the cycle by dismantling the prison industry. tinyurl.com/3nd955fu
WIN OF THE DAY: At least there are some judges who still have a backbone. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed that private prison giant GEO Group cannot force or coerce detained immigrants to work for $1. It must pay $23Mn in backpay.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
GEO Group Denied Rehearing of $23.2 Million Wage Verdict (1)
A federal appeals court denied a private prison operator’s request to rehear its appeal of a $23.2 million jury verdict over violations of Washington state minimum wage law.
news.bloomberglaw.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
WIN OF THE DAY: At least there are some judges who still have a backbone. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed that private prison giant GEO Group cannot force or coerce detained immigrants to work for $1. It must pay $23Mn in backpay.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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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...
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...
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