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Dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it targets.
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Worth Rises — The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits
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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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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.
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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.
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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
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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?

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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.
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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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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...
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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.
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People are not data. Learn about this tech's harmful implications at: worthrises.com/prisonindustry
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Securus isn’t pioneering ‘justice’ solutions. Electronic monitoring is just surveillance, controlling people, racially profiling communities, and fueling mass incarceration.
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Securus Monitoring Showcases BLUtag® and VeriTracks® as Gold Standard in Community Corrections Technology at APPA's 50th Annual Conference
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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)
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Learn more about the billion dollar industry around prison construction in our new book The Prison Industry: worthrises.org/theprisonindustry
Worth Rises — The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits
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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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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.
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