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Colorado voted to end forced prison labor in 2018 – so why are incarcerated people in the state still working for less than $2 an hour?
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Colorado voters approved Amendment A in 2018 to end forced prison labor by eliminating the penal exception clause, yet incarcerated people in the state still earn less than $2 per hour for work assignments.
Colorado voted to end forced prison labor in 2018 – so why are incarcerated people in the state still working for less than $2 an hour?
Incarcerated people in Colorado make less than $2 an hour for their labor. Hari Sucahyo/Getty Images
Colorado voters passed Amendment A, a ballot measure touted as an end to slavery in state prisons in 2018. The amendment eliminated the penal exception clause, which allowed the state to use forced labor in addition to incarceration as a punishment for crime.
Colorado was the first of eight states to repeal its penal exception clause. Advocates for the policy change hoped it would prevent forced
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