This for-profit prison telecom company worked with jails for years to ban in-person visits and hugs so that people would spend more on monopoly calls with loved ones, and then they give $$$ kickbacks to the jails. The owner is Tom Gores, who owns the Detroit Pistons. 
As the NBA celebrates MLK day, you won’t see any players, executives, or owners say anything about why they all let this profiteer extracting Black wealth from families desperate to talk to their loved ones own a team, and why they are silent about it.
It's always been sad to me that journalists like @RealMikeWilbon @TheUndefeated @ZachLowe_NBA and many others are so easily able to ignore this very dark side of the NBA. The way Gores makes his money from the separation and suffering of Black families is unspeakable.
If you want to learn more about Tom Gores and how the Pistons owner profits from the most brutal, violent extraction of cash from Black and poor families, @WorthRises is an amazing organization that has much more info here: worthrises.org/nbagores
@ramonashelburne @MarcJSpears @wojespn do any of you care about these issues? What is the role of journalists to give people some of this context for what the NBA is allowing to happen to Black families in jails across the country?
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