Worth Rises
Dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it targets.
- 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
- For more than a decade, states have struggled to obtain lethal-injection drugs. Public outrage over botched, torturous executions has only grown. Many states have backed away from the death penalty. But others are doubling down — and searching for new ways to kill.
- Idaho lawmakers have passed a law making firing squad — a method widely condemned as barbaric and inhumane — the primary execution method in the state. t.co/IYFwgwy2LI
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View full threadCorporate resistance works: manufacturers have refused to sell drugs for lethal injection, suppliers have prohibited the use of their gas executions, and architects have refused to build death chambers. It's your turn to take action to stop this atrocity. worthrises.org/firingsquad
- 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.
- Reposted by Worth RisesToday 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...
- Reposted by Worth Rises"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
- Reposted by Worth Rises"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-...
- Learn more about how private healthcare corporations avoid consequences: worthrises.org/blogpost/202...
- 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
- Join us in ending the prison industry at worthrises.org
- Reposted by Worth Rises¿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...
- Reposted by Worth Rises¿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
- Reposted by Worth RisesGeorge 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
- TAKE ACTION. Tell the FCC to #StopTheDelay: connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay
- 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
- Learn more about how corporations’ greed and tech surveillance tools have a history of harm: worthrises.org/theprisonind...
- “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
- People are not data. Learn about this tech's harmful implications at: worthrises.com/prisonindustry
- 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
- Learn more about the billion dollar industry around prison construction in our new book The Prison Industry: worthrises.org/theprisonindustry
- 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/...
- Reposted by Worth RisesPeople 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
- TAKE ACTION. Tell the FCC to #StopTheDelay: connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay
- “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
- Want to check yourself? Find corporations that do business with corrections and immigration detention as well as other sectors of the prison industry at data.worthrises.org
- “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
- Take action today at worthrises.org/gasexecutions
- 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
