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Coerced Colorado prison labor amounts to involuntary servitude, judge rules

The state’s prisons unconstitutionally coerced labor by levying severe punishments — including solitary confinement — against prisoners who refused to work, Denver District Court Judge Sarah Wallace found in the 61-page ruling.

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