NOTICIAS
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NOTICIAS DESTACADAS
Inquest
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Feb 5, 2026
“I Was Just a Body”
Temp agencies rely on a constant stream of formerly incarcerated workers to keep jobs unstable and wages low.
Orlando Weekly
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30 ene. 2026
Legisladores de Florida avanzan por unanimidad proyecto de ley para ampliar las protecciones a trabajadores temporales.
El proyecto facilitaría que los trabajadores temporales obtengan empleos estables y establece medidas de rendición de cuentas para las agencias de empleo temporal explotadoras.
In These Times
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May 1, 2025
Building Bridges and Erasing Jail Debt: Katherine Passley
The winner of our Labor Organizer of the Year Award co-runs a member-led worker center in Miami for people with criminal records and their families — the first organization of its kind in the country.
The Guardian
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Nov 18, 2025
Florida workers with criminal records trapped by temp agencies, report finds
The Guardian covers Beyond the Bars’ Temp Trap report and its central finding: workers with records are systematically funneled into the most dangerous and unstable jobs—driving down wages and standards across the labor market.
The Real News Network
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Dec 1, 2025
How prisons and temp agencies exploit the most vulnerable workers
“Historically, temp workers and prison labor… [have] been used to bust union strikes,” Katherine Passley of Beyond the Bars says. “Well, what would it look like if we were to bring those people into the union so that they can’t bust these union efforts?”
Labor Notes
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Dec 17, 2025
From Temp Trap to Union Jobs: Building Pathways for Workers with Criminal Records
By raising standards in the temp industry and building pathways for workers with records into union jobs, we can create a labor market where stability and dignity aren’t reserved for the few. If we fail to organize these workers, we surrender the terrain on which the future of work, and the possibility of freedom, is being built.
TODAS LAS NOTICIAS
2026
The Real News Network
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20 ene. 2026
La industria del trabajo temporal en Florida extiende el encarcelamiento al lugar de trabajo
Orlando Weekly
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30 ene. 2026
Legisladores de Florida avanzan por unanimidad proyecto de ley para ampliar las protecciones a trabajadores temporales.
2025
Labor Notes
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Dec 17, 2025
From Temp Trap to Union Jobs: Building Pathways for Workers with Criminal Records
The Orlando Weekly
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Dec 3, 2025
Advocates urge Disney to investigate alleged use of prison labor to make character balloons
The Real News Network
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Dec 1, 2025
How prisons and temp agencies exploit the most vulnerable workers
The Guardian
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Nov 18, 2025
Florida workers with criminal records trapped by temp agencies, report finds
Southern Worker Assembly
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Oct 24, 2025
Dark Work: Precarious Labor and the Southern Economy
The Real News Network
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Jul 28, 2025
America is built on prison labor. When will the labor movement defend prisoners?
Orlando Weekly
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May 6, 2025
Worker advocates manage to kill Florida bill that would have eliminated labor protections for temp workers.
In These Times
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May 1, 2025
From Permanent Precarity to Permanent Power
In These Times
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May 1, 2025
Building Bridges and Erasing Jail Debt: Katherine Passley
Orlando Weekly
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Apr 22, 2025
Florida Republican doubles down on false claim that Florida has state OSHA
2024
BOLTS
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8 ene. 2024
San Francisco amplía las comunicaciones gratuitas en la cárcel al añadir servicios de tabletas
Harvard Law School
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19 nov. 2024
Ampliando el alcance del movimiento laboral en la reforma carcelaria
Fines & Fees Justice Center
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23 abr. 2024
Cómo el condado de Miami-Dade lideró la eliminación de cuotas locales
Miami Herald
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2 abr. 2024
No más monitores de tobillo de $100: Miami-Dade elimina cuotas para reclusos en cárceles del condado
2023
Florida International University
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15 sep. 2023
Conoce a las nuevas superestrellas: exalumnos jóvenes que están triunfando
Miami Herald
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8 sep. 2023
Avanza el presupuesto de Miami-Dade tras peticiones para financiar vivienda y servicios sociales
WLRN Public Media
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31 ago. 2023
Se agota el tiempo para que las cárceles de Miami-Dade reduzcan la alta cifra de muertes de reclusos