An ongoing lawsuit against the state alleges corrections officials engaged in slavery or involuntary servitude in its prisons by retaliating against people who declined to perform labor inside prisons.
Lawyers say these policies violate Amendment A, which was approved by Colorado voters in 2018 and bans the state from “engaging in slavery or involuntary servitude” under any circumstances.
Valerie Collins, an attorney from Towards Justice, said the case isn’t about prohibiting all prison labor.
“All our clients are demanding is that the state stops forcing people to work,” she said, in a statement. “The state could remedy these constitutional violations today if it wanted to.”
I don’t think they have a case. Slavery is explicitly constitutional as punishment for a crime, per the 13th Amendment. That needs to be fixed first.
Idk kinda sounds like they do.