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Faced with all this pressure, over the course of 2020, Gores and Securus announced a number of new measures. They would give away $3 million to reduce recidivism and improve prisoner reentry,64 they would continue to reduce the cost of calls,65 and Gores himself would give away his personal profits from the company.66 Gores told the Detroit Free Press, with considerable self-importance, that “ultimately it’ll be a blessing that I’m in there and that somebody cares about what’s happening.”67 But Tylek responded, “We’re not asking you to come save people; we’re asking you to stop taking from them.”68 She added, “So before you can argue that you want to do something good and all these things, you have to stop doing the harm that you’re trying to unwind. Those two things can’t operate in the same space.”69 Thus far, Gores hasn’t heeded Tylek’s direction: he has not yet sold Securus—now rebranded Aventiv Technologies—nor has he shut it down. It remains, as of this writing, a part of Platinum Equity’s portfolio.70

—p.141 Captive Audience: Private Equity in Prisons (135) by Brendan Ballou 2 months, 2 weeks ago