Colorado's Slave Labor
By Jeralyn
Created 2007-05-31 18:46

By: Jeralyn Merritt [1]

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Colorado's Slave Labor

In an attempt to reduce reliance on immigrant workers, Colorado has found a cheaper substitute [2]: prison inmates. The Colorado Department of Corrections is paying farmers $9.60 an hour for female inmates to work on their farms. Immigrant laborers had charged $3.00 less per hour. The inmates are paid $.60 per hour. The name for this, in my view, is slave labor. As I wrote here [3], the inmates shouldn't stand for this and neither should we.

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[1] http://www.5280.com/taxonomy/term/508
[2] http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/7772877.html
[3] http://www.5280.com/blog/?p=2296