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2 wrz 2020 · California firefighters have been battling unprecedented blazes and staffing shortages this wildfire season. Before the pandemic, thousands of the state’s wildfire crews came from state prisons— incarcerated people can make around $1 an hour containing fires, clearing brush, and doing other dangerous labor.
1 wrz 2022 · Since World War II, California has relied on a unique group of firefighters to battle its conflagrations: inmates. Prisoners who want to enter the Conservation Camp Program must meet...
27 lip 2021 · Inmate crews are working, arguably, the most difficult and dangerous job in California right now. Several fires are active near Chowchilla, where Tapia is imprisoned.
31 maj 2024 · The California Department of Corrections is piloting a new “Youth Offender Program” where inmates between under age 26 who have more severe sentences on their record are eligible for fire...
24 sie 2020 · Despite a shortage of personnel, there are still 102 inmate crews, or 1,306 incarcerated individuals, battling California’s wildfires, CNN reports.
21 sie 2020 · \u201cAs wildfires burn and neighborhoods evacuate, California prison officials have declined to evacuate Solano State Prison in Vacaville. Instead, they will reportedly give incarcerated people N95 masks to protect against poor air quality. https://t.co/CBKUvS2ddk\u201d
25 sie 2020 · The prisoner firefighter shortage has laid bare California’s reliance on prison labor to keep its ever-growing wildfire season at bay — an exploitative system many have called slave labor.
