lol the article frames it as “an opportunity for trouble youth”
It also frames it as job training which implies that a criminal record doesn’t get in the way of becoming a firefighter
california like “is your child unruly? have you thought about throwing them in coal mines? it’s hip! it makes $1.34 an hour!
with this job your child can: die letting other miners know theres no oxygen around.
great job experience!”
i want you all to know this comes directly from budget cuts in firefighter payments at the federal and state levels
california is increasingly relying on prison labor to accomplish necessary things, meaning they have made prison a necessary component of their economic system
which is to say california cannot cut down on its prison population even if they wanted to for prisoners are needed for californias very survival.
theyre ruining peoples lives because it’s cheaper to do that than to pay people what theyre fucking worth.
the original source link isn’t great so here’s some more reliable ones:
here they are tweeting just a few days ago about their minors in prison fighting fires.
Yikes
This is crazy to me as a firefighter let me tell yall something:
I have friends going to fight the wild fires in ca for $20+ per hour who are trained professional firefighters like my self.
Wild fires are *very* dangerous and unpredictable
I need to stress this, house fires while still having a level of unpredictability, have generally recognizable conditions which we asses to keep safe, wild fires especially of this size change RAPIDLY and have wild varying conditions which get people KILLED in line of duty.
Workers* (payed employees) are only guaranteed 8hrs off a line per day. Thats not even 8 sleeping thats just 8 off a line and thats for *professional fire fighters so I cant imagine what they demand of inmates
Go ahead and look up cancer rates for firefighters I dare you even with SCBA and proper PPE cancer causing toxins are almost impossible to avoid regardless if you’re injured on duty or everything goes as planned
And those are just what I can come up with on the top of my head
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