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📖 OUT TODAY! The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits is available at all major book retailers and many local bookstores across the U.S. All proceeds from book sales go to support Worth Rises. Get your copy today and one for a friend! worthrises.org/theprisonindus…

Making a projection, Corizon is heading back to bankruptcy court. Prison healthcare corps deny incarcerated people care to pad their bottom line. They then file for bankruptcy when settlements for harm done mount, and start over. Will the courts finally stop them this time?

Faith leaders, advocates ask @OklandConst not to work on Idaho prison execution unit. ksl.com/article/514750… @KSLcom @loganstefanich @Diocese_of_SLC @WorthRises @DeathPenaltyAct @acluutah #deathpenalty

Okland Construction, Cator Ruma & Associates, and Elevatus Architecture are under contract to build Idaho's firing squad execution chamber. They can say no. With @DeathPenaltyAct, we're holding them accountable until they do. idahostatesman.com/news/local/cri…

Protestors gather at engineering firm tasked with designing Idaho firing squad facility kivitv.com/boise-bench/pr…. @WorthRises

No Profiting From the Death Penalty - SLC, UT x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

The nation’s largest retirement plan provider Vanguard is also a major investor in the private prisons that profit from immigrant detention. Join us April 9 at 3pm ET to learn how your organization can take action to #DropVanguard. Register here: bit.ly/drop-vanguard-…

Idaho’s new law to make the firing squad its primary method of execution takes effect on July 1, 2026, and there are several companies making money by building new facilities to carry out such executions. We're partnering with @WorthRises to urge the companies to withdraw from their contracts. 🖋️ Sign the Worth Rises petition that we’ll deliver in the coming weeks 👉 worthrises.org/firingsquad

@mcwilson40 @DeathPenaltyAct We hear you. No one should be allowed to murder another person.

@DeathPenaltyAct @WorthRises We have prisons for a reason. Civilized people don’t murder another - especially if they claim to be Christians.

Incarcerated people in WV sued @Aramark for serving inedible food to force them to buy food from commissary, which it also runs. The corp just asked the court to dismiss the case because incarcerated people are not a party to its contract with the state. wvnews.com/news/wvnews/co…

TONIGHT! Join us in NYC for a screening of the Oscar-nominated film The Alabama Solution, a remarkable exposition of the violence and exploitation of our prison system using the only method possible: contraband phones. A Code for Connection event. bit.ly/nyc-alabama-so…

Prison telecom is a multibillion-dollar industry built on exploiting the isolation of incarcerated people. On March 7+8, join us at Code for Connection in NYC — a hackathon to build a free, open-source communications platform. bit.ly/code-for-conne…

Corizon filed for bankruptcy to avoid paying $1 BILLION in medical malpractice settlements and then rebranded as YesCare. Now, it's trying to avoid even the measly settlements payments that families were forced to take. When do we force it to liquidate? news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law…

GOOD NEWS! Private prison GEO Group tried to avoid trial for unjustly withholding wages from immigrant detainees by appealing to SCOTUS, claiming it should be afforded government immunity as a contractor. The Court just UNANIMOUSLY ruled against GEO Group. politico.com/news/2026/02/2…

Private prison giant GEO Group has had all its election day wins wiped out this month due to public backlash over ICE, disappointing earnings, a DHS shutdown, and now the Trump Admin's decision to shift fully to gov-owned ICE facilities. Sorry, not sorry. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Despite increasing its bottom line 8x over the past year thanks to immigration policies that fill its beds, GEO Group stock is tanking. People don't seem all that excited about investing in the brutality and inhumanity that private prisons promote.

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 inthesetimes.com/article/ice-im…

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? newrepublic.com/post/205982/ic…

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.