Pistons’ Tom Gores responds to calls to divest from prison telecom company
Updated Dec 27, 2020;
Posted Dec 27, 2020
Pistons owner Tom Gores announced donation of masks and gloves to help fight coronavirus. (Mike Mulholland/MLive)
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DETROIT -- For years, criminal justice reform groups have been pushing Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores to either sell the team or sell his prison telecommunication company, Securus Technologies.
This fall, advocacy groups turned up public pressure, first by writing to the board of the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, from which Gores resigned. Then they wrote an open letter to the NBA and took out a full-page ad in the New York Times.