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@BiancaTylek
Apr 3, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
We need @CNN to start asking governors what they’re doing to depopulate prisons and jails in order to curb the spread of #COVID19 inside and out.

Send your questions here: cnn.com/2020/03/04/us/…
@CNN How should incarcerated people protect themselves from infection? #CNNTownhall
@CNN How will the spread of #COVID19 in prisons and jails impact the public? #CNNTownhall
@CNN Rikers jails have the highest rate of infection in NY, what should be done? #CNNTownhall
@CNN NYC is digging mass public graves what does that say about who’s dying? #CNNTownhall
@CNN What’s the racial breakdown of who’s being infected and who’s dying? #CNNTownhall

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Oct 15
We ran the numbers and it's sad.

On Oct 28, the FCC is set to rollback regulations — passed unanimously last year — and allow predatory correctional telecoms and greedy sheriffs get back to business as usual exploiting families. Here's what to know. THREAD
In 2024, the FCC unanimously passed regulations that set "just and reasonable" rate caps for prison and jail phone calls. The new rate caps more than halved previous caps and were projected to save families impacted by incarceration $550 million annually.

docs.fcc.gov/public/attachm…
After months of lobbying by correctional telecoms and sheriffs who were set to lose their precious kickbacks, the FCC suspend the implementation of the rules in July 2025. Just two months later, it released new regulations that rollback the 2024 rules.

broadbandbreakfast.com/fcc-to-revisit…
Read 18 tweets
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Apr 5
NEW BOOK! I think I forgot to tell everyone that I wrote a book. It’s the longest thread about the prison industry I’ve ever written, and it’s out this week. I’m honored by the response so far. Please get a copy! Image
“Many know that corporate interests corrupt the contemporary American prison system, but Bianca Tylek and Worth Rises take an extra step to detail exactly how these interests manifest. With powerful narratives and meticulous analysis, The Prison Industry is an essential read…
for anyone committed to challenging how American prisons operate and dismantling the industry of oppression that sustains them.”
— @dwaynebetts, founder of Freedom Reads, author of Felon: Poems, and MacArthur “Genius” Awardee
Read 14 tweets
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Dec 13, 2024
Let's talk about audacity today, specifically the audacity of the nation's largest private prison firm GEO Group, which is preparing to collect a windfall from Trump's election. From wild exec statements to indefensible legal stances, GEO's audacity has reached new levels. 🧵
Some context first: GEO Group emerged in the 1980s, when it got its first immigration detention contract. Since it has grown into a global corporation with over $2.4 billion in revenues annually, more than half of which comes from federal contracts, primarily with ICE.
When the public soured on private prisons, GEO Group began heavily investing in expanding its business, doubling down on immigration. As of 2023, ICE makes up 43% of its revenues, up from 20% just five years earlier. It now has contracts to monitor, detain, and deport immigrants.
Read 15 tweets
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Dec 6, 2024
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS. Local media ran a story this week that is plainly irresponsible and harmful copaganda, parroting claims from the Bristol Country Sheriff that free calls have increased crime in his jail. Here's why that's ridiculous. 🧵
turnto10.com/i-team/inmate-…
For context, this week marks the first anniversary of No Cost Calls implementation in Massachusetts, a legislative effort that made all calls across the state's prisons and jails free. Backed by a strong community coalition, it's been wildly successful.
wgbh.org/news/local/202…
Now, the headline at issue claims that jail crime (measured in criminal charges) is up by 50% this year due to free calls. They want you to ignore that we're talking about just 35 charges in a facility that holds over 650 people and focus on the 50% because that seems dramatic.
Read 19 tweets
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Nov 12, 2024
Wellpath is the 3rd correctional healthcare provider to file for bankruptcy or liquidate in the last 2 years. It'll survive, but we need to be unpack this story. For-profit prison healthcare providers have been pocketing billions while, quite literally, killing people. THREAD
We're still reading through the filings, which are quickly stacking up. But the multitude of reasons they are in this situation are becoming clear. Almost all of them are related to their inability, or unwillingness, to provide quality care, from staff retention to lawsuits.
Wellpath is blaming minimum wage hikes for their increased labor costs. This is interesting because there are likely very few healthcare positions that should be paid minimum wage in a prison, but it explains a lot about their staffing crisis and the resulting increase in costs.
Read 7 tweets
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Nov 1, 2024
There is something huge happening in the prison industry and no one appears to be paying attention: the correctional healthcare sector is collapsing. THREAD
WellPath is the next in a line of prison healthcare corporations facing financial troubles. Despite billions in revenue, they can’t seem to stay afloat. Preliminary reporting claims that it’s because of increased labor costs, but that’s not the real story. So what is it?
Prison healthcare providers are failing for 2 reasons: (1) medical malpractice is actually really expensive and is creating financial obligations bigger and faster than expected and (2) private equity owners are saddling them with unaffordable debt that require more cost cutting.
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