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@BiancaTylek
Jul 1, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Can someone kindly explain this? I imagine that a lot of Black and Brown folks—particularly those who are undocumented—also have questions.

#NoTechForICE
blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/amazon-…
I completely understand that employees want to do something, but it feels like there are other things Amazon (as the corporation) must do before celebrating its charitable giving.

The adage that “you must stop doing harm before you can do good” comes to mind.
Organizations like @fightfortheftr @mediajustice @EFF @ColorOfChange @RAICESTEXAS and many more have been fighting campaigns against Amazon Ring and it’s dangerous, intimate partnership with police.

Read: eff.org/deeplinks/2020…
Sign: fightforthefuture.org/news/2019-10-0…
Others like @ConMijente are taking on Amazon for its critical role in immigration detention and deportation.

Read: mijente.net/wp-content/upl…
Act: notechforice.com
And yes, I know that they announced a 1-year moratorium on selling their awful facial recognition software, Rekognition, to police but what’s the long term play here? And what about military use—ours and others?

google.com/amp/s/www.thev…
I also know I’m late to the party, and the news is a few weeks old. But hey, I’m just getting around to it, there’s a lot going on. And turns out others ain’t see it either. Others heard rumors that some orgs didn’t take the money—nothing concrete. So, yeah, can we talk about it?

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Jun 20
THREAD 🧵 This game-changing legislation just introduced in NYC has been a long time in the works and has the potential to revolutionize correctional telecom by reversing its invasive reach into our privacy and uprooting the underlying justification for its egregious prices.
This effort dates back to 2018, when we passed another first-of-its-kind bill in NYC that made all jail calls free and spurred a nationwide movement for free correctional communication. During the hearing, councilmembers began asking about the surveillance of jail calls.
A key concern emerged around the universal monitoring of jail calls: Was it fair that only people detained pretrial, many of whom simply couldn’t afford bail, were being surveilled, thus hindering their ability to participate in their own defense, and not those who were released?
Read 15 tweets
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May 11
A mother is no less a mother because she’s incarcerated or her child is. Here’s the story of one mother eager to know her child is safe. 🧵

“This Mother’s Day, do right by us so that we can do right by our children, no matter where they are.” - Susan (NJ)
nj.com/opinion/2024/0…
“My son Evan often came home from school in tears. From the age of 5, he was bullied by classmates. Like every mother, my impulse was to hold him close… Now I look back on those days with longing. They were almost easy compared to my day-to-day life today. Evan is in prison.”
“It’s been a few years, and I still wake up every morning wondering if he is alive. He struggles with depression and anxiety as well as addiction after years of self-medicating. I am on edge every day because too many times, I have had to step in to beg for him to receive care.”
Read 9 tweets
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Apr 9
First it was, if you make prison calls free, the vendors will pull all their phones out of the walls. Now it's, if you make calls free, we need millions more for increased monitoring costs. These are industry lobbying points to block efforts to make prison calls free. 🧵
Predatory prison telecoms charge high rates for calls and use the concept of security to justify them. Yet, their rates vary dramatically from one jurisdiction to another. Why? Not because their services wildly differ, but because some states are better at negotiating.
For example, in NY, Securus charges 3.6 cents per minute for calls. In IL, Securus charges 0.9 cents per minute for calls. IL is NOT accepting an inferior level of security services to pay 4x less. It just better negotiated rates for people in its custody.
Read 8 tweets
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Apr 4
THREAD. Predatory prison telecom Securus has just defaulted on over $1 BILLION in debt. After years of preying on incarcerated people and their families, driving many into debt, Securus can't pay its own. Here's the story about how advocacy made this happen.
Securus, owned by Platinum Equity, and its competitor ViaPath (fka GTL) hold 80% of the prison telecom market. Their duopoly allows them to charge egregious rates: $8.25 for a 15-min phone call, $15 for a 25-min video call, and $0.50 for an "email."
Given prison wages, it’s often families who pay for communication. They make impossible choices between paying for a call from a loved one inside and their bills. 1 in 3 falls into debt to stay connected, and some are forced to cut contact entirely.
ellabakercenter.org/who-pays-the-t…
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Jun 22, 2023
Once upon a time, there was a prison telecom named Global Tel Link. It got bad press for exploiting incarcerated people + their families, so it changed its name to @ViaPathTech. Unable to shake its image, private equity owner, American Securities, tried to sell it and failed. 🧵
Global Tel Link is one of the nation's two largest prison telcoms. It is consistently admonished by families, advocates, legislators, and others for charging egregious rates for its subpar communications services: phone calls, video calls, text messages.
The corporation has even charged incarcerated people BY THE MINUTE to read books, including books that are free to the public by thanks to Project Gutenberg.
reason.com/2019/11/22/wes…
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Nov 8, 2022
There are initiatives to abolish slavery on ballots around the country today. Yes, we're still working to abolish slavery because of an exception in the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But some are voting no due to misinformation.

A civics lesson is in order. (THREAD)
This is specifically at issue in Louisiana, where efforts to end slavery are seriously in peril. Some, like the original sponsor who has now abandoned the bill, advocates, and thousands of incarcerated people in his state, have argued that the language on the ballot is confusing.
It's true, the ballot language could definitely be clearer, but the language of the actual measure is clear and definitely abolishes slavery. Confusing ballot language should not be the bases for voting no to abolish slavery. If you're not sure, check the actual bill language.
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