A prison cell may be your home, but that doesn't mean you can use deadly force to defend it. That's according to a Colorado bill that won approval in the state House Thursday.
The bill clarifies the state's so-called "Make My Day" law, which allows deadly force against threatening intruders.
The law has been used at least twice to exonerate Colorado inmates who killed fellow inmates who entered their cells. Last year the law was invoked to throw out a murder charge against an inmate accused of stabbing a fellow inmate to death in the Sterling Correctional Facility. Prosecutors worried the law could be use in the case of an inmate attacking a guard.
The bill faces one more House vote before heading to the Senate.
