Prison labor.

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Minimum-security prison inmates are working five farms in southeastern Colorado to fill in for migrant workers. New tough immigration laws have made migrant workers scarce. Inmates will earn the state's standard prison pay of 60 cents per day. Farmers will contract with the state for the labor, paying the cost of transportation and guards. Representative Dorothy Butcher came up with the idea. "A...

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