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Borrowing money at an astounding 12% interest rate to pay yourself a handsome dividend is wild. The prison industry.

TKC -- a prison commissary, food, and telecom vendor -- just put $2.3 billion in junk bonds into the debt market, with interest rates as high as 12%. What's it going to do with the money? $200 million is going to pay the private equity firm dividends.

New Tool! Find out if your representatives have taken campaign donations from the corporations fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts @theappeal @inthesetimesmag

ICE is buying up warehouses across the country to expand detention passed already unprecedented levels. You don't hold "dangerous people" in warehouses, or tents for that matter. How many more ways will they admit they're just lying? https://t.co/0QezAeI1Is

Okay, so there are at least some investors who draw the line at public assassinations. Private prisons GEO Group and CoreCivic are down 9% and 7% following the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis.

Join @BiancaTylek tonight in Durham, NC, for a book talk on The Prison Industry at @scsj with Dr. Craig Waleed as we discuss how we got to this moment and what we can do to change it. https://t.co/BOouANWRbQ

Join us for a book talk in Asheville on Jan 22 for a deep-dive into the complex dynamics of the prison industry and its ripple effects. @BiancaTylek's new book, "The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits," is packed with insight. Learn more: https://t.co/MhQiqGlDCO

@BiancaTylek @WorthRises 'The Prison Industry' from @BiancaTylek @WorthRises @thenewpress 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."

"Correctional administrators outsource food service to corporations to reduce facility operating costs, with detrimental consequences." @BiancaTylek @WorthRises

Working as a mercenary for ICE, bounty hunting immigrants, is wild work. https://t.co/bUg0wIy2lo

ICE has contracted a subsidiary of private prison giant GEO Group to '"aid in hunting down immigrants at their homes and places of work.” You read that right, GEO Group may soon be providing ICE on-the-ground BOUNTY HUNTING services. https://t.co/u36tpdfVvF

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.

Excellent new report from @beyondbars_mia 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:

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's the monster now?

Corporate 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.

Recently, we sent Elevatus and Okland a formal letter demanding that the firms withdraw from all execution-related design work in Idaho and commit not to participate in such projects in the future. They have not responded. Now we need your help.

For Elevatus, its participation directly violates the Code of Ethics of the American Institute of Architects, to which the firm belongs, which clearly states: “Members shall not knowingly design spaces intended for execution.”

TRIGGER WARNING: Here's how Elevatus architects and Okland contractors — everyday Americans — talk about building a firing squad execution chamber. "They would like a floor drain... It's OK if they have to mop/squeegee [bodily] liquids into the drain."

These executions cannot happen without private-sector involvement. Architects and contractors must design, build, or retrofit the chambers where human beings will be strapped down and shot to death. In Idaho, Elevatus Architecture and Okland Construction have taken the job.

Firing squad executions inflict extreme physical destruction, cause immense psychological trauma, and violate evolving standards of decency. International human rights experts warn the method violates human rights law and constitutes cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment.