How Companies That Sell Equipment To Prisons Affect How People Are Treated

Published: March 8, 2021, 5 p.m.

When companies sell supplies to prisons, does their influence over inmates' lives stop with the inventory?

On Today's Show:
Bianca Tylek, Worth Rises’s executive director, and WNYC/Gothamist reporter George Joseph, talk about the equipment and supplies corporations that provide nearly everything used in prisons and jails from desks and uniforms to restraint jackets and tear gas.