🚨 The TX Dept of Criminal Justice isn’t just forcing families to spend money on e-messaging. It’s also charging more than double what its contract with Securus says it should be charging, for no apparent reason, reporters in San Antonio found. 🧵

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TAKE ACTION! 🚨 Corporations are secretly profiting off the death penalty. Thanks to recent investigative reporting we now know that Absolute Standards is the nation's supplier of lethal injection drugs. THREAD

Tell them to STOP profiting off executions! worthrises.org/lethalinjectio…

Jails have a perverse incentive to keep people locked up: the millions of dollars state agencies pay them for boarding people serving sentences.

State and federal agencies pay local jails a per-day fee for each person held on their behalf, and these fees can rack up quickly.

We do not believe that anyone should profit off of death.

Join us in calling on Absolute Standards to abandon their deeply reprehensible side hustle in the death penalty. worthrises.org/lethalinjectio…

BREAKING! 12 yrs ago today, Connecticut abolished the death penalty. After news that local corp Absolute Standards is the nation's secretive supplier of execution drugs, state legislators are looking to ban local corps from profiting off it. This is huge.
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We're so excited about this. It's way passed due that we talk about the financial incentives behind the War on Drugs. RSVP today!

Demand that Absolute Standards stop supplying drugs for use in executions to federal and state governments. Take action at worthrises.org/lethalinjectio…. #StopExecutions #NoProfitsFromExecutions Worth Rises Last Week Tonight Chris McDaniel

FIGHT BACK!

Geo Group, a mega private prison corp, has filed a new complaint challenging NJ’s ICE detention ban.

⛓️‍💥NJ’s position is clear: we are done w ICE blood $$⛓️‍💥

As always, we will meet this complaint with fierce opposition & defend our communities from attack.

Price-gouging places a heavy financial burden on incarcerated people and their loved ones, many of whom have no option but to shop at the commissary. In the face of low or nonexistent prison wages, many essentials end up out of reach entirely.

Here's our piece from Sunday about executions, and the company we believe manufactured unregulated drugs that were used for lethal injections. You know, standard comedy show stuff....youtube.com/watch?v=SOn3wb…

Incarceration is a business