California Overlooks Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters

During California’s 2020 wildfire crisis, the state exploited prison labor to meet a labor shortage in fire fighters. As VICE’s Motherboard reported in September 2020, even as California recruited fire crews from six other states and from Israel, Mexico, and Australia, the current labor shortage was “brought on by the…
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