30% of California’s firefighters are incarcerated, and many make as little as $6 a day.

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    21 hours ago

    Why are firefighters in prison?

    Or is it prisoners can apply to be firefighters?

    Confused

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      21 hours ago

      As I understood it, prisoners in California can be applied to be firefighters.

      I hope they get proper protection.

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      20 hours ago

      Yeah, this title is less than great. When I read it, I initially interpreted as them deciding to pay full wages to firefighters who had engaged in on-the-job misconduct or something, which made no sense.

      It should’ve read “California introduces new bill to pay prison slaves forced to labor as firefighters the same wage as free firefighters.”

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      21 hours ago

      At first I was also really confused, the title is bad imo.

      Reading further into it seems to be prisoners working as extra firefighters, not “normal” full-time firefighters that were arrested lol