Same thing happened with giving felons their right to vote back in Florida /shrug
But I think that even if it gets screwed by the state government it's still worthwhile for the potential radicalizing effect it might have on some people. California's proposition system is like 50/50 good things and awful things promoted by corporate propaganda until people vote for them even though it's against their own interests.
The Colorado Constitution originally forbade slavery and involuntary servitude "except as a punishment for crime," but Amendment A removed that exception.
However, "the voters did not intend to abolish the DOC inmate work program by virtue of passing Amendment A," wrote Judge Sueanna P. Johnson in the appellate panel's Aug. 18 opinion.
This shit is infuriating, judge just deciding that we didn't actually mean to change the law when we changed the law. The amendment passed with 66% of the vote.
Speaking of which, if you're a Californian comrade please let the inner lib win and vote on banning prison labor in November.
In Colorado we voted to ban prison labor in 2018 and then a judge ruled we didn't actually mean it and nothing changed
Same thing happened with giving felons their right to vote back in Florida /shrug
But I think that even if it gets screwed by the state government it's still worthwhile for the potential radicalizing effect it might have on some people. California's proposition system is like 50/50 good things and awful things promoted by corporate propaganda until people vote for them even though it's against their own interests.
This shit is infuriating, judge just deciding that we didn't actually mean to change the law when we changed the law. The amendment passed with 66% of the vote.
You're telling me 'most progressive candidate ever' Kamala Harris didn't ban it?
What do you mean she aggressively advocated for people to remain in prison to continue using it?
People who were exonerated iirc, some extra heinous layer like that