Nothing is sacred, not even America's most beloved puppets.
“GTL and Securus worked with jails to end in-person visits so that people too poor to pay bail cannot see or hug their kids,” Alec Karakatsanis, founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps,Karakatsanis continued: “Now, using the very money it extracted from some of the poorest families in our society—families too poor to buy their loved ones out of jail—GTL is laundering its reputation by partnering with Sesame Street to teach children about ‘coping with incarceration’ of their parents.
Here is a show that is essentially supposed to be a public service, and which has historically catered to marginalized people, now partnering with a company whose entire business model is predicated on taking advantage of a specific group of marginalized people, to provide money to produce materials ostensibly to benefit those very people it exploitsAnd of course, the question is “Well, would it be better if they didn’t get a grant and couldn’t produce helpful materials for the families of...
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