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Dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it targets. https://t.co/0f4vVhoOrw.
New York, NY
Joined May 2017
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WHEN WE FIGHT WE WIN. These prison healthcare corps filed for bankruptcy to avoid responsibility for medical malpractice. We helped families continue to fight and achieve unexpected outcomes, much higher settlements and even equity in one of the corps.
theguardian.com
The Guardian examined several cases that played out in bankruptcy court, where a series of unlikely events led to an unusual victory
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A significant portion of the prison healthcare industry is owned by private equity. In recent yrs, 2 PE-owned providers filed for bankruptcy to clear thousands of cases and billions in settlements for medical malpractice. Today, they continue their harm.
theguardian.com
The Guardian examined two private-equity backed companies that have been accused of failing to protect inmates from risk of harm, and even preventable death
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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.
news.bloomberglaw.com
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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RT @BiancaTylek: People are fighting back and we love to see it! Sure, they lost and this west TN town went forward with ICE and private pr….
tennesseelookout.com
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...
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In response to our challenge with @UCCMediaJustice @Benton_Inst, the FCC is taking public comments on its plan to delay prison phone rate caps until 2027.
broadbandbreakfast.com
Public interest groups say the Bureau’s delay violates federal law.
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RT @BiancaTylek: Federal ethics rules prohibit gov employees from working on contracts with their former employers. But former private pris….
the-independent.com
Federal ethics rules largely prohibit government employees from working on contracts with their former employers. David Venturella, a former executive at GEO Group, was granted a waiver from those...
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You know the tide has turned when financial data providers like Morningstar are beginning to advise on how to divest from private prisons due to increased ICE arrest and detention. 55% of American now oppose the Administration's approach to immigration.
morningstar.com
The emerging risks of private prison stocks.
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RT @BiancaTylek: The CEO of ICE's data contractor Palantir thinks that people who disagree with him should "suffer". Explains a lot.
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RT @BiancaTylek: Trump plans to spend $75Bn over 4 yrs to expand ICE operations: $45Bn to grow detention from 42k to 125k and $30Bn to scal….
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“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.
theguardian.com
Palantir, Geo Group and CoreCivic, cogs in president’s enormous detention and deportation machinery, report ‘unprecedented growth’
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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
The prison industry is comprised of over 4,000 corporations that profit off of incarceration. These corporations have a vested financial interest in expanding the reach of our carceral system and...
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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.
morningstar.com
The emerging risks of private prison stocks.
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“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 as new corporate vendors profit from Trump-backed $45B immigration expansion.
davisvanguard.org
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...
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Stop corporate development of new gas execution protocol.
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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.
apnews.com
Several Arkansas death row inmates have sued the state to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas.
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“It’s irresponsible for the government to keep giving them money.”. For private prison CoreCivic, wrongful death lawsuits and related settlements are just a cost of business. “I want them to understand that people are not for profit. They are important.“.
theguardian.com
In the second of a three-part special report, the ‘remarkable’ number of deaths of people in custody at the Cibola correctional center
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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.
nytimes.com
Leavenworth, Kan., was forged by the corrections industry, but residents are divided over plans for a privately operated immigration detention site in town.
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RT @GalvinAlmanza: Hey did you know that prisons might steal your voice and sell it to someone?. @BiancaTylek and @WorthRises knew, and the….
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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."
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