‘It’s huge’: State changes law to ban slavery, and now prisoners who are forced to work take action

What could go wrong with a public vote to change a state law, and ban slavery within its borders?

Colorado could explain. Officials now are in a legal fight over their practices that force prison inmates to work, because of the law change.

A report from Westword explains two Colorado inmates brought the case in 2022 after voters approved Amendment A, a 2018 ballot measure that eliminated a provision in the state constitution allowing “slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment...