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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Aug 27

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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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Sep 2

“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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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · Aug 19

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 […]

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Aug 13

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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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 · Aug 11

The CEO of ICE's data contractor Palantir thinks that people who disagree with him should "suffer". Explains a lot.

Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Aug 11

“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’

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Aug 7

“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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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Jul 28

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...

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 22

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.

Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Jul 22

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!

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · Jul 16

"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."

Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 15

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.

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Jul 15

“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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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 · Jul 15

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.
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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 · Jul 10

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

Wetwired

Culture, control, and empire

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 15

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.

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 15

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.

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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 · Jul 1

Today's decision is a shameful defense of industry profits and kowtowing to law enforcement propaganda. The rules were well reasoned and fair. And families are desperate for the relief they were designed to bring. Now they'll have to wait, and its unclear for how long.

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 1

Then, suddenly, with no notice or opportunity for public comment, the FCC, under Chair Carr's leadership, halts implementation. And we should expect it'll file an abeyance with the court to suspend the case while the rules go under review.

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 1

Over the last few months, industry players, a group of conservative state AGs, and the National Sheriffs Association have all been in to see the new FCC Chair and make their case for a reversal of the rules, desperate to protect their profits.

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 1

The rules began to go into effect on a staggered basis in the fall, with the lion share taking effect between January 1, 2025 and April 1, 2026. Multiple efforts to delay implementation during the legal battle were denied by the FCC and the court. filtermag.org/us-appeals-c...

US Appeals Court Blocks Securus, Pay Tel Bids to Stall Prison Call Rate Caps

A flood of litigation fighting impending FCC regulations has been filed by multiple private contractors and more than a dozen states.

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 1

A number of states and public interest groups, like @worthrises.bsky.social, backed the FCC in defending the rules.
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11 State Attorneys General Defend FCC’s Cap on Prison Phone Rates

The FCC and allies will contend with a 14-state coalition opposing the rule.

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 1

After passage, the industry sued the FCC, as was expected, claiming it went to far. This would've been the FCC's opportunity to abandon the rules (as it has previously), but it didn't. In April, the FCC filed a brief aggressively defending the new regulations.

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 1

The final regulations were published in a 400+ page order and approved by the Commission by unanimous vote. FCC Chair Brendan Carr was among those who voted for the rules last year. www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Duckworth Applauds FCC for Unanimously Passing Final Rule to Implement Her Bipartisan Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act That Will Eliminate Unreasonable Prison Phone Rates and ...

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 1

These rules were the result of a bipartisan Congressional mandate asserted with the passage of the Martha Wright Reed Act, which not only expanded the FCC's authority to regulate the correctional telecom industry but mandated it did so within 18-24 months. www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1...

Biden signs a bill to fight expensive prison phone call costs

The legislation gives federal regulators greater authority to limit the costs of prison phone calls. Though rates differ by state, calls from prison cost on average $5 for a 30-minute phone call.

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 1

The cornerstone of the new rules includes:
- New rate caps that more than halve current rate caps
- A prohibition on commissions paid to prisons and jails
- A prohibition on the pass through of surveillance costs to incarcerated people and their families

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 1

For context, the regulations in question were passed by the FCC last year, after more than a decade-long battle, to rein the predatory correctional telecom industry that has been preying on incarcerated people and their families for years.

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · Jul 1

This defies all logic, and I explain why below. But it does continue the wealth grab that defines the Trump Administration.

A thread.

Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Jul 1

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.

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