Interview: Bianca Tylek of Worth Rises on Prison Phone Justice

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this episode Amira Rose Davis interviews Bianca Tylek, Founder and Executive Director of Worth Rises, a non-profit advocacy organization dismantling the prison industrial complex. They discuss Worth Rises' recent prison phone justice action on Mother's Day at a Detroit Pistons game to call out (again) Pistons' owner Tom Gores and his telecom company that profits from overpriced prison phone calls. They talk about the sacrifices families make to pay for these phone calls that are the only lifeline to their loved ones who are incarcerated. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.7	This past Mother's Day, the Chicago Bulls went to the Detroit Pistons to play in a game which the Pistons lost.
0:58.7	And if you were there watching the game, perhaps you were celebrating Mother's Day.
1:03.8	You may have noticed that there was some other activity going on around the game.
1:09.8	Instead of noting Mother's Day inside the stadium, there was a group, Worth Rises,
1:15.9	who used that opportunity to draw attention to a very, very pressing issue of concern
1:24.1	related to the prison industrial complex.
1:26.4	Now, you might be thinking, wait, we're talking about basketball or talking about Mother's Day.
1:31.7	How does that intersect with the prison industrial complex?
1:34.7	Well, to answer that question and dive deeper into what's going on, I'm pleased to be joined by Bianca Tylic, who is the CEO and founder of Worth Rises, a nonprofit that is
1:48.2	aimed at fixing prison industrial complex. And in particular, one of the things that they have
1:55.5	been absolutely integral about raising awareness about is private telecommunications and the harm that they do.
2:03.9	And that brings us to why they were at the Pistons game.
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