Learn more about the prison system tonight with author and criminal justice advocate Bianca Tylek (@biancatylek.bsky.social @worthrises.bsky.social) as she discusses her book, "The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits" (published @thenewpress.bsky.social) at The Maison Projects.

Supreme Court deals setback to ICE detention contractor in fight over detainee work The justices denied GEO Group’s bid to toss out a lawsuit claiming prisoners in Colorado were illegally forced to work.

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...

Durham & Asheville friends - @biancatylek.bsky.social of Worth Rises is coming to NC this week to discuss her new book, The Prison Industry: How it Works and Who Profits. Join her and special guests on Wednesday in Durham and Thursday in Asheville. Both events are free to attend!

The Year in Books - Inquest Inquest staff recommendations of not-to-be-missed decarceral books from 2025.

'The Prison Industry' from @biancatylek.bsky.social @worthrises.bsky.social @thenewpress.bsky.social is recommended in our Year in Books by our EIC Andrew Crespo: "In this book, Tylek and Worth Rises offer the movement to end mass incarceration a critically helpful tool."

Not Fit for Human Consumption - Bianca Tylek & Worth Rises - Inquest Carceral facilities serve bad food as a way to cut costs. Providing this inhumane service is now a hugely profitable sector of Wall Street.

"Correctional administrators outsource food service to corporations to reduce facility operating costs, with detrimental consequences." @biancatylek.bsky.social @worthrises.bsky.social

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

Worth Rises — Stop Corporations from Profiting Off of the Death Penalty Worth Rises campaign to stop corporations from enabling Alabama's nitrogen gas execution protocol.

Take action to stop this atrocity now:

worthrises.org/firingsquad

I don't have words.

Idaho is building a chamber for firing squad executions and this is how the architects and contractors are discussing the project. They're accounting for blood drainage and blown out eardrums, but not asking, "why are we doing this?"

Who are the monsters now?

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We just learned that this niche media outlet covering technology, trusted by many, is actually sponsored by Securus, which is currently on a propaganda campaign. They're being paid to platform them and their perspective. Damn shame.

A pile of Maryland edition zines of How to Report Ice to Help Keep Your Neighbors Safe.

If you come to my house on Halloween, kids will get candy and adults will get a candy with a free zine illustrated by @meganpiont.bsky.social

www.fcc.gov/October2025 towards the end of — it’s the 8th out of 9 agenda items

In the U.S., we use prisoners as a source of income for the powerful, because our prison system originated with our chattel slavery system. This rate increase approval is the intentional result of that system, fought for by sheriffs and wardens and state legislators and huge corporations.

Thank you 🙏🏽 I’m truly devastated for the families. I recommend everyone listen to Commissioner Gomez’s remarks today. She delivered a scathing dissent lifting up families.

F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls

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.

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Your Call Could Not Be Completed - Bianca Tylek - Inquest Under Biden, the FCC made unprecedented progress toward ending price gouging for prison phone calls. Tomorrow, Trump’s FCC is expected to undo it all.

"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

Your Call Could Not Be Completed - Bianca Tylek - Inquest Under Biden, the FCC made unprecedented progress toward ending price gouging for prison phone calls. Tomorrow, Trump’s FCC is expected to undo it all.

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

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A Healthcare Crisis Behind Bars - Harvard Political Review Prisoners don’t get to choose their healthcare provider. With no alternatives, it is quite perverse that the only avenue of treatment available to them is one that makes them sicker.

To prevent thousands more avoidable deaths, Centurion, Wexford, and Corizon’s deadly, profit-driven “healthcare” practices cannot continue as usual. theharvardpoliticalreview.com/health-care-...

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

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

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 […]

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-...

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

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

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...

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

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.

"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."

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.

“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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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 […]

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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Wetwired Culture, control, and empire

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

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.

Worthrises.org/theprisonindustry