4,000 California prisoners are fighting wildfires for a pittance

A shocking number of firefighters battling California’s numerous wildfires are actually prisoners sometimes working for less than $2 a day. They’re hoping to earn shorter sentences – and they’re saving taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. Somewhere between 30 to 40 percent of the state’s forest firefighters, or nearly 4,000 people, are low-level felons from state prisoners, Mother Jones reported. Working in “Conservation Camps”...
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