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Prison profiteering exploits whole communities, not just the incarcerated

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The fingerprints of antebellum slavery can be found all over the modern prison system, from who is incarcerated to the methods used behind bars to repress prisoners. Like its antecedent system, mass incarceration also fulfills the function of boosting corporate profits to the tune of $80 billion a year. Bianca Tylek, Executive Director of Worth Rises, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss her organization’s efforts to combat prison profiteering acr…

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Prison profiteering exploits whole communities, not just the incarcerated

The fingerprints of antebellum slavery can be found all over the modern prison system, from who is incarcerated to the methods used behind bars to repress prisoners. Like its antecedent system, mass incarceration also fulfills the function of boosting corporate profits to the tune of $80 billion a year. Bianca Tylek, Executive Director of Worth Rises, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss her organization’s efforts to combat prison profiteering acr…

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GRIID Class on the Prison Industrial Complex in Kent County – Week #5

For week #5 in our collective investigation into the Prison Industrial Complex in Kent County, we continued our reading/discussion of the book, Beyond Courts. However, before that I shared two sets of links. The first set of links here are about the so-called criminal justice reform movement, where the likes of the Koch brothers and the DeVos family have leveraged their economic resources to push for certain reforms that are motivated on accessi…

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griid.org broke the news in on Monday, March 10, 2025.
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