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California's Budget Secret: Prisoners Form Core of Forest Fire Fighting Army

Loaded on June 15, 2004 by Peter Wagner published in Prison Legal News June, 2004, page 22
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor. Location: California.
California's Budget Secret: Prisoners Form Core
of Forest Fire Fighting Army

by Peter Wagner


In California, up to three quarters of
the crew members fighting California fires are prisoners. In exchange for a reduction in sentence length, 4,100 minimum security prisoners work fighting fires and on public works projects for ...

 

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