Okland Construction, Cator Ruma & Associates, and Elevatus Architecture are under contract to build Idaho's firing squad execution chamber. They can say no. With @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social, we're holding them accountable until they do. www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...

The nation’s largest retirement plan provider Vanguard is also a major investor in the private prisons that profit from immigrant detention. Join us April 9 at 3pm ET to learn how your organization can take action to #DropVanguard. Register here: bit.ly/drop-vanguar...

TONIGHT! Join us in NYC for a screening of the Oscar-nominated film The Alabama Solution, a remarkable exposition of the violence and exploitation of our prison system using the only method possible: contraband phones. A Code for Connection event. bit.ly/nyc-alabama-solution

Prison telecom is a multibillion-dollar industry built on exploiting the isolation of incarcerated people. On March 7+8, join us at Code for Connection in NYC — a hackathon to build a free, open-source communications platform. bit.ly/code-for-connection

GOOD NEWS! Private prison GEO Group tried to avoid trial for unjustly withholding wages from immigrant detainees by appealing to SCOTUS, claiming it should be afforded government immunity as a contractor. The Court just UNANIMOUSLY ruled against GEO Group. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

New Tool! Find out if your representatives have taken campaign donations from the corporations fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts @theappeal.org @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

Join @biancatylek.bsky.social tonight in Durham, NC, for a book talk on The Prison Industry at @scsjofficial.bsky.social with Dr. Craig Waleed as we discuss how we got to this moment and what we can do to change it. eventbrite.com/e/the-prison...

New reporting from The Prospect shows how both Democratic and Republican jurisdictions keep CoreCivic and GEO afloat through state and local contracts. These deals built the infrastructure now powering Trump’s detention crackdown and ongoing abuses. tinyurl.com/3tpkf99m

Excellent new report from Beyond the Bars exposes how temp agencies have become the default and often only employers for millions of folks with criminal records, and lays out a roadmap for organizing workers with records to win dignified work. Read it: Bit.ly/TheTempTrap

TAKE ACTION! Elevatus Architecture and Okland Construction have been contracted by Idaho to design a new firing squad execution chamber. Help us demand they withdraw from this contract to stop this before it’s built. THREAD

BREAKING! Predatory prison telecom giant Securus has bought out @broadbandbreakfast.bsky.social. They are now hosting a panel for the industry and have refused to include anyone advocating for incarcerated people. It's shameful paid propaganda parading as neutral media. It’s time to unsubscribe.

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...

"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

"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...

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...

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. 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

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

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

¿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...

¿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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/...

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...

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. tinyurl.com/2p7nbm5k

“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 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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

“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

Nitrogen gas executions are inhumane, and do not serve justice or public safety. We must ban these cruel methods and block the sale of nitrogen and masks that make them possible. bit.ly/3HoluFr

Despite public outcry, CoreCivic keeps pushing to build detention centers onto communities that don’t want to live near abuse and human suffering, or become prison towns just so they can make millions. bit.ly/46KzeF2

ICE execs are comparing moving people to packages just like private prison execs once compared selling beds to hamburgers. “We need to get better at treating this like a business, where mass deportation operation is like Amazon trying to get your Prime delivery within 24 hours."

Thousands in ICE detention are enduring human rights violations such as violence, lack of clean water, and medical care, while CoreCivic and GEO Group profit. bit.ly/3GVaLSW

CoreCivic and Geo Group, top donors to Trump’s PAC, are cashing in on the record-high deportation of 60,054 immigrants last month. Their stock prices are rising on the backs of human suffering. tinyurl.com/nfwzf584

“This is about more than phone calls, it’s about fairness, family, and the kind of future we want for our communities,” shared Senator Jamaal Bailey. Thank you for your support. Finally, New York’s prison phone calls are free! tinyurl.com/3ct7v4va

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

We have more GOOD NEWS! Business ethics watchdogs in the UK and Switzerland accepted our complaints against Barclays, HSBC, and UBC for investing in private prisons. We're heading into mediation, which could be key to cutting off critical financing that enables their human rights abuses.

New report by @ituc.bsky.social calls out the U.S. for violating global labor standards through prison slavery. 800,000 incarcerated people are forced to work as little as $0.86 per day, or nothing at all. Take action with at EndTheException.com bit.ly/4f7iaLx

When profits depend on the headcount of people detained, private detention centers turn a blind eye to overcrowding—no matter how dangerous and deadly it gets. www.latintimes.com/ice-could-se...