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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...

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

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

“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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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.

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
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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.

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

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Worth Rises - Dismantling Prison Industry Working to dismantle the prison industry and end the exploitation of those it touches.

Join us in ending the prison industry at worthrises.org

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.

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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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

¿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
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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

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.

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?

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Stop the FCC Delay — Connecting Families Urge the FCC to implement new prison & jail telecom rules without delay—support families waiting for relief today.

TAKE ACTION. Tell the FCC to #StopTheDelay: connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay

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.

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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https://connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay

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

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Learn more about how corporations’ greed and tech surveillance tools have a history of harm: worthrises.org/theprisonind...

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.

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

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...

“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

People are not data. Learn about this tech's harmful implications at: worthrises.com/prisonindustry

Securus Monitoring Showcases BLUtag® and VeriTracks® as Gold Standard in Community Corrections Technology at APPA's 50th Annual Conference

Securus isn’t pioneering ‘justice’ solutions. Electronic monitoring is just surveillance, controlling people, racially profiling communities, and fueling mass incarceration.
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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

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

YouTube video by Bad Faith CRIME LIES Lead to CRACK DOWN in DC, For Profit Prisons Win (w/ Alex Karatkatsanis & Bianca Tylek)

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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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...

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

Worth Rises — The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits

Learn more about the billion dollar industry around prison construction in our new book The Prison Industry: worthrises.org/theprisonindustry

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...

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

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.

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.

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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...

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.
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Federal Action Page - FCC Delay — Connecting Families

TAKE ACTION. Tell the FCC to #StopTheDelay: connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay

FCC Opens Comment on Challenge to Prison Phone Rate Cap Delay Public interest groups say the Bureau’s delay violates federal law.

In response to our challenge with @uccmediajustice.org and Benton Institute, the FCC is taking public comments on its plan to delay prison phone rate caps until 2027.
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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’

“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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The Prison Industry Corporate Database The prison industry is comprised of over 4,000 corporations that profit off of incarceration. These corporations have a vested financial interest in expanding the reach of our carceral system and wors...

Want to check yourself? Find corporations that do business with corrections and immigration detention as well as other sectors of the prison industry at data.worthrises.org

How to Find Private Prison Stocks in Your Portfolio The emerging risks of private prison stocks.

Investors deserve transparency if their funds are tied to stocks like GeoGroup or CoreCivic, which profit from inhumane detention centers. If you don't want to support this, there are ways to find out. bit.ly/4mvzdZZ

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...

“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