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A mom's website shows who profits from ICE. Why Feds call it a 'threat'
Arizona Daily Star (USA Today) | September 1, 2026Trump FCC Makes It Easier For Prison Phone Monopolies To Rip Off Inmate Families
Techdirt | August 17, 2026FCC Approves Rate Caps Rollback, Impacting Incarcerated Families
Davis Vanguard | August 11, 2026Opinion | When phone calls in jails and prisons are free, everybody wins
Cap Times | August 9, 2026Illinois prisons expand free phone calls
Chicago Reader | August 5, 2026Solano County sued over in-person jail visit ban, video call profits
San Francisco Chronicle | July 23, 2026Incarcerated men expose forced labor conditions at Arkansas prison
Prism | July 14, 2026Incarcerated People Lose Treasured Media When Prisons Change Tablet Contracts
Truthout | July 4, 2026For families of Nevada inmates, taxes and fees on long-distance phone calls add up
Nevada Current | June 29, 2026At Angola Farm Line Trial, An Enduring Debate Over Slavery
Law360 | June 26, 2026Wireline Competition Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics Seek Comment on Proposed 2026 Mandatory Data Collection
Federal Register | June 17, 2026Inside Peter Thiel's "Dialog" and ICE's Privatized Extraction Grid
Substack – Eyes On Ice | June 17, 2026Opposing Firing Squads: Protest at Fort Wayne firm follows strategy used against lethal injections
The Indiana Citizen | June 5, 2026Divest Now! Say NO! to ICE Impunity, For-Profit Human Trafficking, and Enslavement by Prison Profiteers
Substack – Sarah Towle | June 3, 2026Avenal Prison Tablet Scandal Puts Newsom's $189 Million Tech Gamble On The Hot Seat
Hoodline | May 29, 2026
Carceral Health Care Profiteers Keep Evading Responsibility for Harms
Filter | May 27, 2026YesCare Collapse Exposes Cracks in Prison Healthcare System
Bloomberg Law | May 22, 2026Worth Rises Files Report on Benefits of Free Prison Calling
Communications Daily | May 18, 2026YesCare Files for Bankruptcy Following $307 Million Medical Neglect Verdict
Davis Vanguard | May 13, 2026Advocates raise concerns about possible new firing squad execution center in Idaho
KTVB | March 9, 2026California inmate accused of calling and sexually messaging a child on prison tablet
KMPH Fox 26 | May 28, 2026Free prison, jail calls linked to lower costs, better outcomes in new report
Stateline | May 13, 2026City To Renew Rikers Phone Deal Amid AI Surveillance Concerns
The City | May 12, 2026First Analysis of Free Prison Phone Calls Shows They Reduce Violence
Filter | May 11, 2026Prison Communication Cost Removal Improves Rehabilitation, Study Finds
Davis Vanguard | May 9, 2026Free Prison Calls Linked to Better Reentry Outcomes
Broadband Breakfast | May 7, 2026Study says free phones calls in prison help recidivism — Florida budget won’t address it this year
Florida Phoenix | May 7, 2026Prison telecom companies rake in billions exploiting incarcerated people. They donate a fraction of profits to those they harm
Prism | May 5, 2026What Happens When Jails and Prisons Make Phone Calls Free?
The Nation | May 5, 2026Idaho's Controversial Firing Squad Chamber Ignites Debate Over Death Penalty Reforms
WVAL News | April 3, 2026Idaho engineering firm besieged by protesters after agreeing to build FIRING SQUAD chamber to execute death row prisoners
Daily Mail | April 1, 2026‘Sick and wrong’: Boise firm designing Idaho firing squad chamber draws protest
Idaho Statesman | April 1, 2026Protestors gather at engineering firm tasked with designing Idaho firing squad facility
ABC6 | March 31, 2026Construction underway on Idaho firing squad facility as advocates plan protest
ABC6 | March 31, 2026Brother of man executed by firing squad demands construction firms pull deal to build Idaho execution chamber
ABC4 | March 30, 2026Digital tablets mellowed California prisons. Now a tech migration is riling users
CalMatters | March 24, 2026UBS faces OECD scrutiny over human rights risks in passive investments
Europe Says | February 21, 2026ICE Explores Outsourcing Some of Its Efforts to Deputize Local Police
Notus | February 20, 2026Worth Rises Sees Recovery of IPCS Security Costs as Key Issue before the FCC
Communications Daily | February 10, 2026Trump’s vow to arrest immigrants lifted private prison stocks. Then why did they tank?
Stacker News | January 26, 2026Rollback of cost relief for calls from jail leaves incarcerated Wisconsinites paying more
Racine County Eye | January 16, 2026Watching humanity go down the drain at Idaho’s firing squad facility
Idaho Statesman | January 15, 2026Trump’s Vow to Arrest Immigrants Lifted Private Prison Stocks. Then Why Did They Tank?
The Marshall Project | January 06, 2026Family of California man who died in ICE detention sues prison operator
The Mercury News | January 05, 2026
Torrance County extends ICE contract with boost for prison operator
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How delays and bankruptcy let a nursing home chain avoid paying settlements for injuries and deaths
KUNM-FM | December 30, 2025
Private prisons are top beneficiary of immigration crackdowns
Sun Sentinel | December 30, 2025
Fabricated ICE narratives collapse as Minnesota raids escalate
WorldSocialist Web Site | December 29, 2025
Fear in, profit out: inside America’s immigration detention economy
Substack | December 29, 2025
Why one fund slashed the vast majority of its GEO Group stake as the stock slipped 40%
Nasdaq | December 29, 2025
Calls in Virginia prisons are among the cheapest in the country, but activists say prices are ‘predatory’
WHRO-FM | December 29, 2025
Largest U.S. jail health provider faces lawsuits, sanctions
Belleville News-Democrat | December 26, 2025
ICE bounty hunters: 10 companies earning $1 million+ immigration enforcement profits
World Today Journal | December 25, 2025
Family sues CoreCivic after loved one brutally attacked behind bars
WKRN.com | December 22, 2025
The surging momentum in GEO Group stock: a strategic reassessment of the corrections industry in a shifting regulatory landscape?
AInvest | December 22, 2025
Spike in ICE custody deaths in 2025; DHS has not denied the increase
VisaVerge | December 22, 2025
ICE hires immigrant bounty hunters from private prison company GEO Group
The Intercept | December 19, 2025
ICE is reopening shuttered prisons as detention centers. Many have a troubled past
MPR News: KNBJ-FM | December 18, 2025
ICE threw thousands of kids in detention, many for longer than court-prescribed limit
The Marshall Project | December 17, 2025
From punishment to possibility
Psychology Today | December 17, 2025
Family sues CoreCivic for $15M after incarcerated person left with brain damage, head disfigurement
WZTV-TV | December 16, 2025
An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
MIT Technology Review | December 1, 2025
State and local contracts prop up for-profit prisons
The American Prospect | November 26, 2025
State and local contracts underpin for-profit prison complex facilitating Trump’s immigration crackdown
EXPOSEDbyCMD | November 26, 2025
'Communication is our bond,' and it's about to cost more
The Fredericksburg Advance | November 17, 2025
The sunshine interview: the executive director of ACLU Hawaiʻi
Honolulu Civil Beat | November 16, 2025
The prison economy
Millennium Post | November 15, 2025
FCC allows prisons, jails to charge more for phone and video calls
Stateline | November 11, 2025
Piece by piece, FCC dismantles its prison and jail phone call price caps
Filter | November 10, 2025
FCC votes to loosen caps on jail, prison phone calls
Louisiana Illuminator | November 1, 2025
FCC approves rate caps rollback, impacting incarcerated families
Davis Vanguard | October 31, 2025
Phone calls could get really expensive for nearly 2 million people soon
CNET | October 30, 2025
FCC votes to nearly double rates for prison phone calls
World of Software | October 29, 2025
FCC’s prison call rate hike sparks outrage and debate
WebProNews | October 29, 2025
FCC Republicans force prisoners and families to pay more for phone calls
Ars Technica | October 29, 2025
Prison phone rates going up; critics predict ‘huge Implications’ on health
KFF Health News | October 29, 2025
FCC votes to roll back prison rate caps, boosting phone and video call costs
StateScoop | October 29, 2025
FCC votes to loosen caps on jail, prison phone calls
Verite News | October 28, 2025
F.C.C. changes course on the price of prisoners’ phone calls
New York Times | October 28, 2025
FCC votes to nearly double rates for prison phone calls
CNET | October 28, 2025
FCC vote hikes prison phone rates in win for ViaPath and Aventiv
Bloomberg | October 28, 2025
FCC votes to nearly double rates for prison phone calls
CNET | October 28, 2025
F.C.C. changes course on the price of prisoners’ phone calls
New York Times | October 28, 2025
Your call could not be completed
Inquest | October 27, 2025
FCC to nearly double call rates for prison and jail inmates
Broadband Breakfast | October 27, 2025
Advocates push FCC to protect prison communication rights
Davis Vanguard | October 26, 2025
FCC’s revised phone call rates could cost incarcerated families $215 million
Davis Vanguard | October 17, 2025
Cornering the captive market
The Free Press | October 3, 2025
Direct cash support: dismantling mass incarceration
memesita | September 25, 2025
Cash relief for incarcerated women: a new hope?
Archyde | September 25, 2025
Battle over prison phone call costs heads to court, FCC teases new vote
Filter | September 22, 2025
Prison labor exposes America’s unfinished abolition and enduring legacy of slavery
Blitz | September 22, 2025
The house that ICE built
Fast Company | September 18, 2025
FCC plans October vote to revisit prison phone rate caps
Broadband Breakfast | September 17, 2025
Prison labour: the last stronghold of slavery in the US
openDemocracy | September 17, 2025
Advocates urge FCC to reverse decision on prison phone call rates
Davis Vanguard | September 16, 2025Why the US needs basic income as reparations for racial injustice
OpenDemocracy | September 15, 2025Writing from my cell in the age of prison wi-fi
Fast Company | September 11, 2025
Trump's ICE raids bring boom time for U.S. private prisons
Context | September 3, 2025Federal prisons turn to biometric monitoring for reentry programs
Biometric Update | September 3, 2025
Where cellphones help users save money, and pricey calls are now free
The Christian Science Monitor | September 2, 2025Trump’s immigrant gulags: a bonanza for private prison corporations
CounterPunch | September 2, 2025In data: Under Trump, immigration enforcement spending to explode
Context | August 27, 2025Immigration detention has become a booming business for private prison giants
Truthout | August 14, 2025
FCC opens comment on challenge to prison phone rate cap delay
Broadband Breakfast | August 12, 2025Incarcerated New Yorkers getting free outgoing calls
The Capitol Pressroom | August 7, 2025
Private prison companies profit from ICE raids and detention under Trump
Davis Vanguard | August 7, 2025
New York reaches deal with Securus to end prison phone fees
Broadband Breakfast | August 4, 2025
New York becomes latest state to offer free phone calls in prisons
The Rhode Island Current | August 3, 2025
Trump’s FCC helps out private prison telecom companies
Urban Milwaukee | August 2, 2025
Evening shade, resistance rising (regional shade)
Daily Kos | August 2, 2025New York becomes latest state to offer free phone calls in prisons
Stateline | August 1, 2025
Advocate: free calls for inmates will increase safety
WTEN | August 1, 2025
Phone calls from NY state prisons will be free starting in August: Here's what to know
Democrat and Chronicle | July 31, 2025
Groups challenge FCC's bureau-level order suspending prison phone rate cap
Broadband Breakfast | July 31, 2025
NY to make phone calls free for those in state correctional facilities
ABC News 10 | July 29, 2025UK watchdog accepts complaints against Barclays, HSBC over private prison investments
Davis Vanguard | July 28, 2025
NY prison inmates to get free phone calls
The Daily News | July 24, 2025
New York set to make phone calls free in state prisons
Spectrum News NY1 | July 24, 2025
New York funding free calls for incarcerated people as FCC stalls
WVNY-TV | July 23, 2025
New York state to offer free phone calls for prisoners, alleviating financial strain on families
Hoodline | July 23, 2025
Phone calls free for N.Y. state prison inmates under new initiative
New York Daily News | July 22, 2025‘Finally, relief is on its way’: NY to end prison phone fees
The City | July 22, 2025NY to make prison phone calls free, saving families millions
Law360 UK | July 22, 2025Phone calls will be free in New York prisons starting Aug. 1
WGRZ | July 22, 2025Prisoners’ phone calls will soon be free in New York state
New York Times | July 22, 2025FCC criticized for postponing call rate cap rules for incarcerated individuals
Davis Vanguard | July 13, 2025MEGA reports: Major trade union federation launches UN campaign to end prison slavery in the U.S.
AP News | July 11, 2025Priced out of phone calls home
Bolts | July 10, 2025Made in Maine: Shop offers quality craftsmanship, but you can’t meet the makers
Mainebiz | July 8, 2025Groundbreaking analysis from fwd.us finds incarceration costs american families nearly $350 billion each year
The Good Men Project | June 27, 2025After a DUI stop, he vanished Into the ICE system
Capital B | June 26, 2025The corporations that profit off the prison system and incarcerated people
Prism | June 5, 2025Proposal seeking to punish CT companies that aid in death penalty moves forward
Hartford Business Journal | May 15, 2025Working while caged: the fight to end forced prison labor
Law360 | May 9, 2025Building bridges and erasing jail debt: Katherine Passley
In These Times | May 01, 2025Mario Monteiro got his freedom. what he's doing to help those still inside the ACI
The Providence Journal | April 30, 2025The Prison Industry: how It works and who profits
Edu Expertise Hub | April 27, 202511 state attorneys general defend FCC’s cap on prison phone rates
BroadbandBreakfast | April 25, 2025Everyday Injustice podcast episode 281: Bianca Tylek on who benefits from mass incarceration
Davis Vanguard | April 21, 2025April 2025 reads for the rest of us
Ms. Magazine | April 2, 2025A legal battle exposes the big business of exploiting prisoners for profit
Truthout | March 20, 2025The ugly battle for control of a prison-tech empire
Jacobin | March 13, 2025Incarcerated people's communications services; implementation of the Martha Wright-Reed Act
Federal Register | March 12, 2025Prison profiteering exploits whole communities, not just the incarcerated
The Real News Network | March 10, 2025Baxter County to cut inmates’ phone use after FCC caps fees Arkansas Democrat Gazette | March 8, 2025
At Rikers, commissary prices exceed those at local stores despite pledge to bring costs down
The City | February 26, 2025Revealed: US firm running Guantánamo migrant jail accused over rights abuses
The Guardian | February 20, 2025Prison phone providers renew legal fight against FCC rate caps
BroadbandBreakfast | February 18, 2025Former inmate turned firefighter: Eddie Herrera's inspiring journey
Head Topics | February 16, 2025The prison inmates fighting wildfires in LA
The i Paper | February 16, 2025CT weighs barring state companies from aiding in executions
CT Mirror | February 10, 2025Biden promised but failed to end federal use of private prisons. That’s left the industry ready to cash in big under Trump.
CNN | February 5, 2025Biden's private prison promises fall short as ICE detainees fill jails
Head Topics | February 5, 2025California’s free prison calls are repairing estranged relationships and aiding rehabilitation
Fresh Society | February 4, 2025Trump's secret weapon on immigration
Business Insider | February 3, 2025They helped save L.A. Will California ever pay them fairly?
The New Republic | January 30, 2025On LA fire lines, inmates shoulder heavy packs and tackle dangerous work for less than $30 a day
AP News | January 18, 2025Bianca Tylek joins Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley | January 16, 2025US-Mexico border takes the spotlight as Trump presidency nears
Courthouse News | January 15, 2025The story behind LA’s incarcerated youth firefighters
Dazed | January 13, 2025Inmates are fighting California wildfires in long-running and controversial practice
NPR | January 10, 2025Advocates try again on bill to halt the practice of charging inmates for phone calls
Maryland Matters | January 10, 2025Jail phone costs can be a huge burden for families. A new Wisconsin campaign aims to make them free.
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Private equity is set to profit off a border crackdown
Jacobin | December 5, 2024Private contractors in US eye windfall from Trump’s push to deport migrants
Al Jazeera | November 27, 2024Prison telecom companies, reform advocates debate lower phone fees for incarcerated people
Louisiana Illuminator | November 22, 2024Yes, some forms of slavery are still technically legal in most U.S. states
VerifyThis | November 6, 2024Wellpath, Vermont’s prison health services provider, heading for bankruptcy
Valley News | November 5, 2024Trump election win could fuel US private prison boom
The Daily Mail | October 31, 2024Effort to provide low-cost health care behind bars stirs controversy
The Marshall Project | October 24, 2024The real cost of prisons (podcast)
upEND | October 24, 2024The prison telecom free-for-all is over
The Appeal | October 22, 2024What’s your start agenda?
Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) | September 10, 2024Incarcerated People in Kentucky Hack State-Issued Computer Tablets to Digitally Create $1M. How’d They Do It?
Lexington Herald Leader | August 23, 2024Prison phone call fees are out of control. The FCC can finally rein them in.
Wired | July 19, 2024FCC votes to end prison phone rate robbery
Boing Boing | July 19, 2024FCC votes to end high prison call costs
Axios | July 18, 2024Unmarked cars and secret orders: How a pharmacy prepared drugs for Texas’ executions
NPR | July 10, 2024The new battle over an old institution: Forced prison labor
The Marshall Project | June 22, 2024Company linked to federal execution spree says it will no longer produce key drug
The Intercept | June 22, 2024‘Florida loves prison labor’: why most incarcerated people still work for free in the Sunshine state
The Guardian | June 21, 2024A captive market: The high price of prison phone calls
NPR | June 20, 2024EP+Co and Worth Rises delve into their acclaimed, multi-award-winning campaign, 'The most famous speech never given'
The Drum | June 20, 2024Plantations to prison farms: How far have we come?
Austin Chronicle | June 14, 2024A mother's calling: Inside the fight to make prison phone calls free in Connecticut
Connecticut Public Radio | May 31, 2024Removing the financial incentives for incarceration
Forbes | May 29, 2024US prison social media crackdown plan raises free speech concerns
Context | May 21, 2024Do children have a “Right to Hug” their parents?
The New Yorker | May 14, 2024The slow death of a prison profiteer: How activism brought Securus to the brink
The Appeal | April 4, 2024Advocates, lawmakers push for free prison phone calls
Times Union | April 2, 2024Quality and quantity of correctional services under scrutiny in Annapolis
Maryland Matters | March 11, 2024As Alabama eyes more nitrogen executions, opponents urge companies to cut off plentiful gas supply
AP News | February 16, 2024Abraham Lincoln is back. He has some regrets.
Fast Company | February 14, 2024AI resurrects Abraham Lincoln to Fight for criminal justice reform
Forbes | February 14, 2024New York’s prison labor system: ‘You got the slaves, and you got the masters’
HellGate | February 13, 2024Wall Street’s new prison scam
The Lever | February 13, 2024Groundbreaking new study reveals significant economic benefits of ending slavery in prisons and paying incarcerated workers fair wages
Milwaukee Community Journal | February 2, 2024Ending US jail workers’ slavery clause ‘could net billions’
Context News | January 31, 2024Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
AP News | January 29, 2024US prisons use new tech to dial down illegal cellphones
Context News | January 29, 2024Canadian company slammed by activists for 'death dealing' after supplying mask and hose used in Kenneth Smith's controversial execution
The Daily Mail | January 26, 2024Does a new U.S. execution method have Canadian link? What’s behind concerns
Global Mail | January 25, 2024Activists fight Alabama execution by targeting death penalty supply chain
Fox10 News | January 24, 2024Firm with Quebec ties makes mask to be used in U.S. prisoner execution
CBC | January 24, 2024Civil society groups file OECD complaint against Swiss and UK banks over private prison stock
Banktrack | January 16, 2024 -
Private equity is using prison phone, food and health systems to rack up profits
Truthout | November 24, 2023Billion-dollar supersize prisons are slated to be built across the U.S. But do they help or hurt public safety?
Yahoo News | October 14, 2023US prison labor is cruel and pointless legalized slavery. I know first-hand
The Guardian | September 22, 2023Prison labor is slave labor and the constitution says that’s fine
TruthDig | September 3, 2023It’s nearly Labor Day, and Congress has a chance to abolish prison slavery
Truthout | September 1, 2023Is this the end of prison phone fees?
Mother Jones | August 30, 2023Massachusetts is poised to make communications free for incarcerated people
Bolts Magazine | August 4, 2023L.A. County says phone calls will be free in all its jails by Dec. 1
Los Angeles Times | July 25, 2023Ahead of Juneteenth, congressional lawmakers again seek to remove exception for slavery from US Constitution
CNN | June 16, 2023US Constitution's exception for slavery faces renewed battle ahead of Juneteenth
ABC News | June 15, 2023A new law aims to make prison calls affordable. The FCC must decide what that means.
Marketplace | May 31, 2023Free prison phone calls can make Minnesota safer and families stronger
MinnPost | May 9, 2023Families shouldn’t go into debt paying for prison calls
The Denver Post | March 30, 2023Here's a simple way to improve public safety — make prison phone calls free
Albany Times-Union | March 28, 2023Princeton seminary students and alums demand ouster of chair over ties to prison profits
NJ.com | March 17, 2023Biden signs bill to end profiteering from prisoners' calls to loved ones
Common Dreams | January 5, 2023Rising prices behind bars hammer imprisoned people in the US
Al Jazeera | January 3, 2023 -
The fight for no-cost prison phone calls continues
Dig Boston | July 19, 2022Prison in plain sight: visualizing the economic veins that fuel our carceral reality
Black Agenda Report | July 13, 2022While the U.S. celebrates the end of slavery on Juneteenth, incarcerated artists depict the harsh reality that forced labor persists in prison
ArtNet | June 19, 2022If public safety is the goal, free prison calls are the answer
Commonwealth Magazine | April 14, 2022Mass is still gouging prisoners on phone fees. Will lawmakers finally change that?
Dig Boston | April 11, 2022Cap on 'egregious' prison phone costs set for Senate panel vote
Bloomberg Government | March 23, 2022Lawmakers opt for study over elimination of jail, prison fees
NBC 12 | March 23, 2022Tracked and traced: you are the product, thanks to surveillance capitalism
WDET 105.9 FM |- March 3, 2022‘It has been set back years now’: free calls plan for those who are incarcerated hits a snag in Milwaukee County
Wisconsin Watch | March 3, 2022Hochul proposes bringing back private prison labor
New York Focus | February 23, 2022Franklin-based FDRsafety terminates contract with state of Alabama following public outcry
Franklin Homepage | February 14, 2022Families pay $5.1 million per year for calls with loved ones in the Milwaukee County Jail. Supervisors are considering making them free.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | February 14, 20221 in 3 big defense contractors profit from US prisoner suffering
Mint Press News | February 14, 2022Is slavery still Legal in the U.S.? Yes, under the 13th Amendment exception
Teen Vogue | February 3, 2022A legislative caucus will hold a Wednesday briefing on a proposal to make phone calls free from prison, jails
The Berkshire Eagle | January 18, 2022N.Y. prisons punished 1,600 based on faulty drug tests, report finds
The New York Times | January 4, 2022Report: rampant false-positive prison drug tests led to undue punishment
News10 ABC New York | January 4, 2022NYS Inspector General investigation determines hundreds of incarcerated New Yorkers denied due process and endured severe punishment as a result of egregious administrative failure in drug testing program
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'Families die by a thousand cuts.' Companies like JPay make big bucks billing Florida inmates for essentials
The Florida Times-Union | December 22, 2021Prison phone companies are recording attorney-client calls across the US
Vice | December 13, 2021Mayfield Candle Factory’s labor practices under scrutiny in wake of deadly tornado
Louisville Public Radio | December 13, 2021Lecrae’s rap contest was meant to lift up the incarcerated. Did it help Exploit them instead?
Rolling Stone | November 8, 2021Why we can’t let music whitewash prison profiteering
Variety | October 29, 2021Legislators push to make phone calls in New York’s jails and prisons free
New York Focus | October 14, 2021The push to make phone calls free for people incarcerated in Massachusetts hits a crucial moment Tuesday
The Berkshire Eagle | October 2, 2021Heads up, Sesame Street is part of the prison industrial complex now
Jezebel | October 1, 2021Prison destroyed video proof of guards torturing anti-fascist, lawyers say
VICE | September 29, 2021FCC urged to lower inmate calling rates, security costs
Law360 | September 28, 2021Does building better jails go far enough?
The New York Times | September 24, 2021Violence plagues private prison in Kansas, critics say, urging Biden to close all such facilities
The Topeka-Capital Journal | September 14, 202150 years after Attica, activists are still fighting to end coerced prison labor
Gothamist | September 14, 2021Can a nonprofit disrupt the pricey -prison phone industry?
Bloomberg | September 8, 2021Some prison labor programs lose money — even when prisoners work for pennies
The Marshall Project | September 2, 2021U.S. prisons mull AI to analyze inmate phone calls
Reuters | August 9, 2021COVID froze prison visits, spotlighting high cost of phone calls
PEW | August 4, 2021Spring Hill arts gathering highlights work of formerly incarcerated artists in special exhibition
Forbes | August 1, 2021The Lines of Connection
The Atlantic | July 29, 2021Telecom vendors used end of prison visits during COVID to profit off phone calls
Truthout | July 24, 2021Bernie Madoff reportedly earned 24 cents an hour for work in prison
New York Post | July 23, 2021The pandemic isolated incarcerated people. Kentucky and Securus cashed in
Louisville Public Radio | July 14, 2021How sheriffs are extracting wealth from people in jail
The Appeal | June 30, 2021The high cost of phone calls in prisons generates $1.4 billion a year, disproportionately driving women and people of color into debt
Business Insider | June 23, 2021Connecticut becomes first state to make video and voice calls free for incarcerated people
The Root | June 23, 2021Connecticut becomes first state to make calls free for inmates and their families
CNN | June 22, 2021Lawmakers mark Juneteenth by reviving ‘Abolition Amendment’
Associated Press | June 18, 2021CT readies for free phone calls from behind bars
CT News Junkie | June 18, 2021Connecticut is 1st state to make all prison phone calls free
Associated Press | June 18, 2021Will Massachusetts follow Connecticut in ending charges for prisoner phone calls?
Common Wealth | June 17, 2021Bill to make Connecticut first state with free prison phone calls heads to Governor's desk
NPR | June 4, 2021The last thing we need is an Uber for off-duty cops
The New Republic | May 31, 2021TED Talk | Bianca Tylek: The multibillion-dollar US prison industry — and how to dismantle it
TED | May 24, 2021Connecticut moves a step closer to becoming first state to make all prison phone calls free
Hartford Courant | May 21, 2021Connecticut just got one step closer to making prison calls free
Mother Jones | May 21, 2021FCC to cut some prison call costs, but most are beyond its reach
Bloomberg Law | May 21, 2021Senate OKs free phone calls from prisons
CT Mirror | May 20, 2021The prison phone kickback game
Axios | May 20, 2021Silicon Valley firm powers predatory prison video calls
The American Prospect | May 17, 2021Comedian Samantha Bee blasts Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores over role in prison phone call injustice
Detroit Metro Times | May 6, 2021New San Diego County policy makes jail phone calls free, but shorter
The San Diego Union Tribune | May 5, 2021FCC needs more ‘courage’ in curbing prison phone costs: advocates
The Crime Report | May 4, 2021KidsMates interviews Bianca Tylek
KidsMates | May 1, 2021Toxic Alabama private prison deal falling apart with Barclays exit
Forbes | April 21, 2021CoreCivic struggles to secure financing for Alabama’s new prisons
Alabama Political Reporter | April 16, 2021Banks should follow and expand on Biden’s lead and divest from mass incarceration
Forbes | April 15, 2021Judiciary Committee sends prison phone call bill to appropriations
CT News Junkie | March 30, 2021Bianca Tylek on her fight against the prison telecom industry
Next With Novo | March 25, 2021As advocates press for an end to high-priced prison calls, state officials warn of budget costs
CT Examiner | March 24, 2021Prison laborers are paid pennies to maintain the prisons they’re incarcerated In
Truthout | March 21, 2021From meals and forced labor to $14 for a 15-minute call home, it's clear there's still work to be done on prison reform
Iowa City Press-Citizen | March 19, 2021Will Connecticut be the first state to make prison phone calls free?
The Filter | March 15, 2021The prison-industrial complex is nickel-and-diming people who make pennies an hour. Now it's monetizing one of their last connections to the outside world.
Business Insider | March 14, 2021The Coronavirus made the radical possible
The New York Times | March 11, 2021Ending private prisons is not enough. Biden must end the business of incarceration.
Business Insider | March 7, 2021Physical mail could be eliminated at federal prisons
The American Prospect | February 24, 2021Connecticut lawmakers want to try again to make prison phone calls completely free
The Intercept | February 22, 2021Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores speaks about controversy over Securus
Detroit Free Press | February 6, 2021Tell them you love them (with Bianca Tylek)
Pod Save the People | January 12, 2021Why the Biden administration must abolish the death penalty
The Progressive | January 5, 2021 -
Tom Gores hurt after group urges him to sell Pistons; promises to improve prison telecom company
Yahoo! Sports | December 27, 2020Detroit Pistons owner urged to sell team over his investment in prison telecom firm
NPR | December 24, 2020Activists urge Pistons owner ousting over prison phones investment
BET | December 22, 2020Criminal justice advocates call for Tom Gores to cut ties with prison phone company
The National Herald | December 22, 2020‘If Black Lives Matter, what are you doing about Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores?’: Advocacy group calls out NBA in full-page newspaper ad
The Root | December 21, 2020Pistons Owner Tom Gores earns millions sucking the blood out of a broken prison system
Deadspin | December 21, 2020Anti-incarceration group demands NBA force Detroit Pistons owner to sell team
The Daily Wire | December 21, 2020Activists call on NBA to oust Pistons owner Tom Gores over ties to prison business
Inside Hook | December 21, 2020Criminal justice reform group pens open letter to NBA encouraging Tom Gores sale of Pistons
Michigan Live | December 20, 2020Worth Rises urges Tom Gores to sell Pistons due to his prison telecom company
Bleacher Report | December 20, 2020Full-page NY Times ad to NBA: 'If Black Lives Matter what are you doing about Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores?'
Deadline Detroit | December 20, 2020Advocates pressure NBA owners over Tom Gores’ prison-industry company
The Daily Beast | December 20, 2020Activists call on Tom Gores to sell Pistons over platinum ownership of phone company
The Detroit News | December 20, 2020Prison reform activists take out full-page ad calling for NBA to oust Pistons owner Tom Gores
Yahoo! Sports | December 20, 2020Tom Gores’s prison investment drags NBA into controversy
Bloomberg | December 20, 2020Activists urge NBA to oust Pistons owner Tom Gores over prison phones investment
Los Angeles Times | December 20, 2020Activist calls on NBA to pressure sale of Pistons over Tom Gores' ownership of jail telecom business
ESPN | December 20, 2020New report details the shocking growth of prison exploitation across the US
Mint Press | December 16, 2020Are prison services companies the next frontier for responsible investment in the age of Black Lives Matter?
Responsible Investor | October 19, 2020Tom Gores departs LACMA board over prison telecom connection
Art Forum | October 12, 2020Detroit Pistons owner called to divest from ‘racist’ prison phone company as NBA navigates Black Lives Matter
Detroit Metro Times | October 12, 2020If the NBA Stands for racial justice, what about Tom Gores?
The Nation | October 12, 2020Tom Gores resigns from LACMA board over artist, activist outcry
WWD | October 9, 2020LACMA board member resigns amid outcry over investment in prison phone company
Dallas Art Dealers Association | October 9, 2020Tom Gores, owner of prison telecom company, resigns from LACMA board
Hyperallergic | October 9, 2020Billionaire Tom Gores resigns from LACMA’s board amid prison telecom controversy
Los Angeles Magazine | October 9, 2020Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores steps down from L.A. art museum board after public pressure
Detroit Free Press | October 9, 2020LACMA board member tesigns amid outcry over investment in prison phone company
Art News | October 9, 2020Tom Gores resigns from LACMA board over prison phones iInvestment
Los Angeles Times | October 9, 2020Locked up during COVID-19: costly phone calls strain families
Reuters | September 23, 2020Artists call on L.A. art museum to remove prison profiteer from its board
NPQ | September 21, 2020How mass incarceration creates 'a tremendous amount of financial exploitation'
Yahoo Finance | September 19, 2020Collectors, artists push LACMA to nix billionaire board member
WWD | September 17, 2020Groups call for removal of LACMA trustee tied to ‘exploitative’ telecommunications company
The Art Newspaper | September 17, 2020Major artists demand LACMA remove board member who owns prison telecom company
Hyperallergic | September 16, 2020A billionaire could lose LACMA board seat over his prison phone investment
Los Angeles Times | September 16, 2020Artists and activists are calling for a billionaire businessman’s ouster from LACMA’s board
Los Angeles Magazine | September 16, 2020American businesses are raking in billions from the prison-industrial complex. It's time to get serious about dismantling this disgusting system.
Business Insider | September 14, 2020Prison telecom business indicted by rap album recorded in jail
NPR | August 28, 2020NY State prisons abruptly suspend drug tests for contraband
Gothamist | August 26, 2020Senators push for free prison phone calls in next Coronavirus relief bill
The Intercept | August 7, 2020Massachusetts sheriffs say bill to make inmate phone calls free would force cuts to jail programs; advocates believe free calls will help successful re-entry
Mass Live | August 2, 2020Costly prison phone calls are another kind of punishment
Boston Globe | July 27, 2020Incarcerated people look to Senate to cap prison phone rates
Associated Press | July 22, 2020Investor group endorses ‘statement of solidarity’ on racial justice
Corporate Secretary | June 20, 2020Securus Technologies is cashing in on immigrant detention
USA News Hub | June 12, 2020How to stop phone companies and sheriffs from exploiting inmates’ families
The American Prospect | June 1, 2020For people with relatives in prison, Coronavirus makes calls more urgent – and harder to afford
CT Mirror | May 25, 2020US House passes HEROES Act advancing landmark federal action on prison phone justice
Insight News | May 19, 2020Greek-American billionaire Tom Gores and Securus Technologies
The National Herald | May 19, 2020Prison phone companies would face hit in stimulus bill
Bloomberg | May 15, 2020As we struggle to stay connected, prison calls must be free
Essence | May 10, 2020Crime doesn’t pay but prison does, even during a pandemic
Associated Press | May 8, 2020New York prisoners are sewing masks for hospitals—but most don’t have their own
Mother Jones | May 6, 2020Episode 26: The Privatization of Prisons
Justice in America Podcast | April 1, 2020The telephone line is a lifeline for prison families. And calls are outrageously expensive
WBUR | January 27, 2020Under pressure from activists, L.A. billionaire’s prison telecom announces reforms
Los Angeles Times | January 21, 2020 -
Who makes money from private prisons?
CNBC | December 29, 2019New York jail inmates charged $50 million annually, report says
The Wall Street Journal | December 19, 2019Harsh prison rules punish the innocent
Boston Globe | December 14, 2019Leaked documents say roughly 2,000 NY prisoners affected by erroneous drug tests
Gothamist | November 21, 2019Bills would pull the plug on sky-high jail phone costs
Daily Hampshire Gazette | November 17, 2019Jailhouse calls in Monroe County soon could get cheaper, but some are pushing for free
Democrat & Chronicle | November 12, 2019Large pensions keep quiet after Warren blasts private prison industry
PE Hub | October 29, 2019Prisons and jails use artificial intelligence to monitor prison phone calls
ABA Journal | October 25, 2019US prisons and jails using AI to mass-monitor millions of prison calls
ConnectFM | October 24, 2019Families want to end prison phone call charges
Commonwealth Magazine | October 22, 2019Prison industry deal drags L.A. billionaire into Elizabeth Warren’s campaign
Los Angeles Times | October 11, 2019Platinum Equity reorganizes prison-phone company targeted by Elizabeth Warren
The Wall Street Journal | October 10, 2019PA’s Millions: pensions split on private-prison protest
The Philadelphia Inquirer | October 1, 2019Local resistance, corporate profits fuel America’s ‘debtors’ prisons’
The Crime Report | September 27, 2019Prison systems in the US and Israel have something in common
Al Jazeera | September 27, 2019Detention centers’ booming industry
Al Día | September 27, 2019State employee retirement board balks at investing in prison-linked private equity firm
Pennsylvania Capital-Star | September 27, 2019Prison reform activists gather at Dwight Hall
Yale Daily News | September 24, 2019Pennsylvania pension passes on Platinum Equity investment amid prison-phone controversy
The Wall Street Journal | September 24, 2019The Private Option
The Atlantic | September 12, 2019What gate money can (and cannot) buy
The Marshall Project | September 10, 2019Troubled companies made him billions. A prison phone investment made him enemies
Los Angeles Times | September 5, 2019Trump’s reinstatement of indefinite family detention could kill people
Truthout | August 22, 2019Criminal justice advocates meet with Senator Elizabeth Warren - Part 1
NowThis | August 17, 2019Criminal justice advocates meet with Senator Elizabeth Warren - Part 2
NowThis | August 17, 2019Pension board OKs $300 million investment in private equity firm connected to prisons
Pennsylvania Capital-Star | August 10, 2019Pennsylvania pension backs Platinum Equity despite prison-reform critics
The Wall Street Journal | August 9, 2019Racism, Inc.: How Donald Trump profits from xenophobia
Salon | July 21, 2019Private companies are cashing in on ICE’s detention centers
GQ Magazine | July 19, 2019Under siege and largely secret: businesses that serve immigration detention
WAMU | June 30, 2019Reactions to free phone calls demonstrate ‘status quo bias’
The Appeal | June 25, 2019First big scoop: student journalists expose high school’s use of prison labor
The Marshall Project | June 24, 2019Slamming 'corruption' that has allowed rampant abuse, Warren releases plan to ban private prisons
Common Dreams | June 21, 2019Pensions commit to $8B fund of prison-phone magnate
The New York Post | June 19, 2019NYC Pensions to expand prison investment ban with Platinum Equity
Bloomberg | June 18, 2019Wyden Bill to strip tax breaks from private prison industry profiting from child detentions
Common Dreams | June 13, 2019Trump administration to use former Japanese internment camp for migrant children
Citizen Truth | June 13, 2019All phone calls free from SF County jail
The San Francisco Bay View | June 13, 2019SF plans to make jail calls free for inmates
The San Francisco Examiner | June 12, 2019Advocates push for free phone calls in Connecticut prisons
Government Technology | May 29, 2019Bill that would make prison phone calls free sent to the House
The CT Mirror | May 28, 2019Advocates rally for passage of a bill that would make prison phone calls free
The Hartford Courant | May 28, 2019Connecticut’s Democratic Governor is stonewalling a bill that would make phone calls from prison free
The Intercept | May 23, 2019Connecticut considers making phone calls free for prisoners
Fox8 | May 16, 2019Platinum defends prison buyout as activists target new fund
Bloomberg | May 16, 2019How private prisons are big business
RTAmerica Watching the Hawks | May 15, 2019Connecticut considers making phone calls free for prisoners
Associated Press | May 14, 2019How private equity is turning public prisons into big profits
The Nation | April 30, 2019Last-chance push planned for prison phone-call bill
New Haven Independent | April 24, 2019How the fight for ‘prison phone justice’ scored a major victory
The Crime Report | April 23, 2019Bill that would make prison phone calls free advances
The CT Mirror | April 9, 2019Free prison calls could finally be coming to Connecticut
The Intercept | April 2, 2019Legislators consider making prison phone calls free
The CT Mirror | March 25, 2019CT prisoners could call family for free under proposed bill
CTPost | March 25, 2019You’re better off ‘rich and guilty than poor and innocent,’ panel told
The Crime Report | March 8, 2019Councilors press city on investments
The Bay State Banner | March 6, 2019Prison tech company is questioned for retaining 'voice prints' of people presumed innocent
The Appeal | February 12, 2019Sheriff’s office to begin providing free phone calls for juveniles in Mecklenburg County jail
WBTV | February 12, 2019NYC pensions invest in buyout funds union says profit from jails
Bloomberg | February 8, 2019Prisons are quietly building databases of incarcerated people's voice prints
The Intercept | January 30, 2019Oregon's prison commissaries rack up $17 million in sales
The Oregonian | January 7, 2019Oregon women's prison becomes one of few to offer free tampons
The Oregonian | January 2, 2019 -
Costly calls: Shelby County makes $1 million from jail phones amid national reforms
The Commercial Appeal | November 2, 2018Capitalizing on justice: the prisoners using art to challenge the system
The Guardian | October 17, 2018"Capitalizing on Justice" exhibit spotlights works of incarcerated artists
HYPEBEAST | October 15, 2018Paper mail still matters to people behind bars
Bloomberg | October 8, 2018Below the surface of ICE: the corporations profiting from immigrant detention
In These Times | September 24, 2018Bad press and lawsuits are no obstacle to a $610 million prison loan
Bloomberg | September 21, 2018Who profits from our prison system?
The Nation | August 9, 2018Phone calls from New York City jails will soon be free
The New York Times | August 6, 2018How investors are abolishing ICE — in their portfolios
Market Watch | August 6, 2018A prison phone giant’s ploy to further exploit inmates
Washington Monthly | July 30, 2018How activists convinced New York City to stop profiting off prisoners' phone calls
The Appeal | July 26, 2018NYC will stop gouging incarcerated New Yorkers for calling home
Gothamist | July 19, 2018This call may be monopolized and recorded
The Marshall Project | July 11, 2018Detained migrant parents have to pay to call their family members. Some can't afford to.
The Texas Tribune | July 3, 2018EEUU: exponen multimillonario negocio detrás de la detención de inmigrantes
La Republica | June 29, 2018El multimillonario negocio detrás de la detención de inmigrantes en estados unidos
BBC Mundo | June 25, 2018The migrant detention business is more profitable than you think
The Takeaway, WNYC & PRI | June 19, 2018The Daily Appeal talks to the Director of the Corrections Accountability Project about a new report
The Appeal, Justice Collaborative | June 19, 2018Private prisons: principally profit-oriented and politically pliable
Follow the Money | June 7, 2018Post Meek Mill: report discloses companies profiting from prison
Black Enterprise | May 7, 2018Union leaders, activists applaud push to eliminate commercial bail bonds in NY
Amsterdam News | April 26, 2018Corrections Accountability Project’s report ‘exposes’ 3,100 corporations
Correctional News | April 26, 2018NYC rakes in cash from inmates' phone calls, advocates say
Patch | April 24, 2018REPORT: the 3,100 companies that are invested in mass criminalization
Colorlines | April 23, 2018Electronic monitors: how companies dream of locking us in our homes
In These Times | April 23, 2018Despite Cuomo action, thousands of prisoners still denied access to books
Village Voice | February 7, 2018New York makes it harder for inmates to get books
The New Yorker | January 9, 2018 -
Making money off of caging people with Bianca Tylek
Voir Dire, Criminal Justice Policy Program, Harvard Law School | November 14, 2017