Colorado Just Abolished Slavery … Huh!

A stipulation allowing slavery as a form of punishment has just been voted out of Colorado’s state constitution. The language of the sentence will be changed by cutting away everything after “servitude.” If you know anything about the prison industrial complex, which is already used to exploit people for free labor and often maintains hellish environments for inmates, that last part should be ringing alarm bells in your head. Even if you don’t, people have a way of doing horrifying things in the name of free labor.

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