How The Prison Industry Dehumanizes And Profits / Bianca Tylek

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Bianca Tylek speaks to This Is Hell! about “The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits" that is published by the New Press. Bianca Tylek is one of the nation’s leading experts on the prison industry and is the Founder and Executive Director of Worth Rises, a national non-profit dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it touches. Bianca’s work has been covered by the New York Times, Washington Post, the Atlantic, NPR, The Nation, Mother Jones, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and more. We will have new installments of Rotten History and Hangover Cure. We will also be sharing your answers to this week's Question from Hell! from Patreon and Discord. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	Biggie up.
0:03.0	Take a job! This is hell.
0:25.6	This is hell.
0:40.8	Apologies for the delay this morning.
0:43.2	However, we do have some rather fantastic breaking news at this moment.
0:51.0	According to Block Club Chicago, Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and federal immigration agents,
0:57.6	under his command, could be leaving Chicago as soon as this week, according to media reports.
1:05.5	Unnamed sources told the Chicago Tribune and CBS News that Bovino, the controversial leader,
1:12.3	heading up the Trump administration's operation at large, is expected to leave Chicago for another assignment.
1:20.0	Most but not all of the Border Patrol agents under his command are also expected to exit
1:24.0	the city, though that could change sources told the Tribune and CBS.
1:29.3	Some Border Patrol agents could be headed to Charlotte, North Carolina,
1:33.3	though plans could change again.
1:36.3	CBS reported, citing sources.
1:38.3	Immigration and custom enforcement agents are expected to continue their enforcement
1:42.3	activity in the Chicago area, CBS reported.
1:45.5	However, the far more aggressive Border Patrol agents will be leaving in its far more aggressive
1:51.8	leader, Gregory Bovino, who was caught throwing tear gas illegally at protesters last week.
1:59.2	We'll be leaving soon, hopefully as well.
2:03.4	It's one step in the right direction, but we need to get ice out of here as well.
2:08.3	Manufacturing dissent since 1996.
2:10.9	This is hell.
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