30 Percent of California's Forest Firefighters Are Prisoners - "Participants make $2 per day in the program and $2 an hour when they're on a fire line."

30 Percent of California's Forest Firefighters Are Prisoners - "Participants make $2 per day in the program and $2 an hour when they're on a fire line."

30 Percent of California's Forest Firefighters Are Prisoners - "Participants make $2 per day in the program and $2 an hour when they're on a fire line." ( motherjones.com )

submitted 2015-09-20T01:52 by salvia_d

2 comments

Charlie_Prime 2015-09-20T17:30

Why on earth would anyone pay criminals for their upkeep?

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01011011101101 2015-09-20T14:40

and the collaboration with Cal Fire saves the state roughly $80 million a year.

Slave labor.

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