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Colorado Farms Out Prisoners to Replace Immigrant Farm Workers
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2008, page 16
Filed under:
Prison Industries,
Prison Labor,
Immigration,
News,
State Legislation.
Locations:
Arizona,
Colorado,
Idaho,
Puerto Rico.
Colorado is renting its prisoners to local farmers to replace migrant agricultural workers - mostly Mexican and Central American - who have been scared away by the state's restrictive immigration laws.
In 2006, the Colorado legislature passed what it trumpeted as the nation's toughest immigration policies. Law enforcement officials …
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