In an odd legal move, the Alabama Supreme Court on Friday sent a lawsuit filed by inmates, who are arguing that the state’s prison work programs are essentially slavery or involuntary servitude, to the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, and didn’t seem particularly happy about it.

In the lawsuit, a group of four inmates who are part of the work release program argue that, while they want to work, the various punishments applied to them by Alabama’s prisons for not working – often doled out without consideration of extenuating circumstances – are unfair. They argue that such a setup is in direct violation of the state’s newly rewritten constitution that makes illegal “any form” of slavery or involuntary servitude.

This case is separate from a federal lawsuit filed in 2023 that claims the sta

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