Trump’s biggest supporters, private prisons, may get shafted. Turns out private prisons are expensive. The Trump administration is embarking on a $38 billion plan to convert industrial warehouses into a new breed of large-scale holding centers.
Let’s dive into Finding 1: Increased Connection of our new report. Listen to the stories of those who have experienced free prison and jail communication and learn more at ConnectFamiliesNow.com/PowerOfFree.
FINDING 1: Increased Connection. When the cost barrier to communication was removed, connection increased immediately, dramatically, and durably. This is the power of free communication in prisons and jails.
Learn more at ConnectFamiliesNow.com/PowerOfFree
Prison healthcare providers are sued hundreds of times every year for medilcal malpractice. Their businesses rely on bankruptcy to avoid paying. Last year we worked with families to ensure that they got their fair share when Wellpath, another prison healthcare provider, declared bankruptcy.
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Happy Mother’s Day to all the mother’s impacted by incarceration and separated from their children — those behind bars and those whose children are. We’re fighting to keep you connected. Learn more at ConnectFamiliesNow.com/PowerofFree.
Advocacy works! We are proud to share our new report showing the impact of the free communication policies we’ve fought for with our partners across the country. When we remove the price tag from human connection, we all win.
Read the report at /PowerofFree
Advocacy works! We are proud to share our new report showing the impact of the free communication policies we’ve fought for with our partners across the country. When we remove the price tag from human connection, we all win.
Read the report at /PowerofFree
GOOD NEWS! We just ended medical copays in Conneticut prisons and cancelled all outstanding related debt. For an incarcerated person, a $5 copay can represent an entire week’s wages, forcing an impossible choice between seeking medical attention for a persistent symptom or purchasing basic hygiene necessities like soap and toothpaste. They no longer have to make that choice. The Governor is expected to sign the bill.
Bounty hunting immigrants, that's where we are in the matrix. When corporations are paid to capture and cage people, the system is incentivized to get bigger. Follow the money, and you see that at least 10 corporations have each pulled in over $1 million acting as bounty hunters for ICE, turning detention and deportation into a revenue stream.
It’s easy to think of the front lines as something far away. But there is a massive overlap between the military and our domestic prison system that brings the war home in unexpected ways.
While on hold, if implemented, Trump's warehouse plan would be one of the most sweeping restructurings of the U.S. immigration detention system in decades. The move to government-owned jails creates an immigration detention infrastructure that could outlast the Trump administration and its mass deportation effort.
