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The Trump administration is planning on spending a staggering $45 billion over the next two years to expand migrant detention facilities across the country. The private prison industry stands to cash in exponentially on this plan. nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/…

Thousands of people detained by ICE are actually held in local, publically operated jails These facilities–run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of the incarceration of people who are mostly accused of no more serious offense than crossing the border without permission

An important reminder as tax season winds down and you possibly owe Uncle Sam: Mass incarceration costs the US at least $182 billion every year. Follow the money of mass incarceration: prisonpolicy.org/reports/money.…

Are the brands you buy profiting from prisons? Through painstaking research that tracks and exposes the profiteers of the criminal justice establishment, the abolitionist organization Worth Rises seeks to end the exploitation of incarcerated people and their families.

GEO Group, one of the largest private prison corporations in the country, is aiding in the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda by providing surveillance technology to ICE. nytimes.com/2025/04/14/tec…

Privatized correctional healthcare is a deadly scam. Corporations charge taxpayers millions for healthcare to incarcerated people that they later deny, killing and harming many. “It’s only lucrative because the industry is based on stealing.” Bianca newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

BREAKING! For years, we worked to drive Securus into bankruptcy. Well, this week, its owner, Platinum Equity, did it out of court, simply bowing out, waving the white flag, and handing it over to lenders after defaulting on $1.6Bn in debt. Stay tuned for more on what this means.

Want to know how to take an industry down? Take control of the narrative around it. Change the policies that govern it. And hold its corporate players accountable. Follow us at Worth Rises.

Deaths at CoreCivic facilities could easily be prevented, but as long as there are no consequences they will continue. Until we eliminate the prison industry, laws like this one are necessary to stop the senseless deaths by hitting them where it hurts, their profits.

Zero chance that something so logical would happen.

We're excited for the release of "The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits" by @biancatylek! We spoke to Bianca this season of the upEND Podcast. Listen to "The Real Cost of Prisons" and get the book. @worthrises buff.ly/NSDJmOU

Slavery is not dead, it just changed uniforms. Incarcerated people across the U.S. are forced to work for little or nothing. Read #TutWaterman’s powerful piece on forced prison labor: mytimetobloglife.com/post/i-m-tired

Curious how Wall Street profits from punishment? Bianca breaks it down on Vanguard News Group's podcast—featuring insights from our new book The Prison Industry: davisvanguard.org/2025/04/prison…

Prisons and jails switch telecom vendors regularly as contracts expire, some times for good reason. But when they do, it has a major impact on those incarcerated because these vendors hold their communications hostage. They shouldn't be allowed to. themarshallproject.org/2025/05/09/new…

"If you and your stakeholders make money by keeping people in prison, why would you invest any resources into keeping them out of prison?" Private prisons have an interest in increasing recidivism, not lowering it. filtermag.org/corecivic-pris…

Towns look to immigration detention for revenue. Beyond the ethics, the truth is that towns that have relied on carceral systems for economic growth have seen it trail those who found other means. Another carceral capitalist lie many have bought into. bloomberg.com/features/2025-…

Maurice Monk should be here today. Instead, Wellpath’s reckless neglect denied care and cost him his life. CA advocates are holding them accountable for this cruelty: bit.ly/3YSeUN6

An important piece by A More Perfect Union Festival on the business of immigration detention in towns across the U.S. Listen to those on the ground. youtube.com/watch?v=fxqnLv…

I talk about this in my new book: The Prison Industry—how prisons, jails, and detention centers are built on toxic sites because the land is available and cheap. Air pollution, contaminated water, and more harm the health of people held and working there. thenation.com/article/enviro…