atempuser23@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · edit-23 months agoLA firefighters desperately try to contain monster Palisades firewww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down4·4 months agoSome of whom are convicts working for $5 a day… Some of them are only in prison instead of home release because of that slave labor.
minus-squareI_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 months agoNot supporting enslavement of the incarcerated, but in California, you can’t be forced to fight fires as a prisoner, it’s a volunteer position. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/us/inmates-firefighters-wildfires-california.html
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 months agoI heard that they can’t be hired as firefighters.
Some of whom are convicts working for $5 a day…
Some of them are only in prison instead of home release because of that slave labor.
Not supporting enslavement of the incarcerated, but in California, you can’t be forced to fight fires as a prisoner, it’s a volunteer position.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/us/inmates-firefighters-wildfires-california.html
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I heard that they can’t be hired as firefighters.
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