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NBA responds to activist group calling for Tom Gores to sell Detroit Pistons over jail telecom business
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DETROIT, MI - OCTOBER 18: Pistons owner Tom Gores addresses the media before the Inaugural NBA game at the new Little Caesars Arena on October 18, 2017 in Detroit, Michigan. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. The Pistons defeated the Hornets 102 to 90. (Photo by Dave Reginek/Getty Images)
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(WXYZ) â The activist group Worth Rises recently took out a full-page advertisement in Sunday s New York Times, demanding the NBA force Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores to sell the team because of his investment in the prison telecom corporation Securus.
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An advocacy group took out a full-page advertisement in Sunday s New York Times, calling on the NBA and 30 of its owners to force Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores to sell his team because of his ownership of a prison telecom company. If Black Lives Matter, what are you doing about Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores? the advertisement read.
The advertisement refers readers to a website that says how Gores ownership of Securus Technologies, which his Beverly Hills-based private equity firm Platinum Equity purchased in 2017, undermines [the NBA s] sincerity about its stance on social and racial justice issues. Securus helps to set the pricing for phone calls for jailed inmates in hundreds of counties nationwide, in some cases
Criminal justice reform group pens open letter to NBA encouraging Tom Gores sale of Pistons
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Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores addresses the crowd during a press conference at the grand opening of the Pistons new practice facility in the New Center neighborhood of Detroit, on Monday, October 7, 2019. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)Mike Mulholland | MLive.com
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Ahead of the start of the 2020-21 NBA season, criminal justice reform groups continue their call for a change in ownership of the Detroit Pistons.
On Sunday, readers of the New York Times found a call to action. That call was not addressed to them, but rather for NBA commissioner Adam Silver and the league’s board of governors. The non-profit Worth Rises, took out a full-page ad in the sports section of the paper urging the league to ask Tom Gores to either divest from Securus Technologies or sell the team.
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DALLAS, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Securus Technologies today announces its 300,000
th active tablet, an achievement that has positively affected the lives of incarcerated people and their families across 35 states and 120 counties. The hand-held devices provide access to free educational tools, re-entry resources, media applications and communication capabilities that facilitate the vital connection between incarcerated individuals and their loved ones. Since introducing tablet technology to the corrections industry in 2010, the organization has provided more than 500,000 individuals with access to the hand-held devices, and proudly celebrates 300,000 active devices in the field today.
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According to a report by Every Second, half of adults living in America have at least one immediate family member incarcerated. One in seven adults, or over 35 million people, has a close family member who has spent more than one year in j