| We’re thrilled to share the video of last month’s powerful conversation between ALC’s Executive Director Robert Saleem Holbrook; Worth Rises Executive Director Bianca Tylek; and Piper Kerman, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Orange is the New Black. Recorded at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia on April 10, 2025, the event celebrated the release of The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits, the highly anticipated book by Worth Rises, a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it touches. This book maps the range of ways in which private corporations, often with their government partners, make money off incarceration. It further details the extraction of wealth from incarcerated people and their families, who have been brutalized by over-policing, mass incarceration, and mass surveillance. |
| In this hard-hitting conversation, Piper, Bianca, and Saleem Holbrook gave listeners a deep dive into the complex dynamics of the prison industry and its far-reaching consequences on communities. Check out the video here! The Team at ALC |
