The predatory economics of staying connected behind bars
In short: A simple phone call can become a debt trap for families of the incarcerated. This talk exposes the billion-dollar telecom industry profiting from mass incarceration and offers a roadmap for dismantling these corporate interests.
Bianca Tylek explores how the US prison industry operates as a multibillion-dollar network of corporations that profit from keeping people incarcerated for longer periods. A key mechanism of this profit is the telecom industry, where phone calls to jails or prisons can cost as much as one dollar per minute.
Due to these elevated costs, debt affects 33% of households having relatives in jail. Tylek presents specific, straightforward strategies to dismantle these predatory systems and shift the focus away from corporate profit in the criminal justice system.
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