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Nearly 40% of the people fighting wildfires across California are prison inmates
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:45 pm
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:45 pm
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Of the 10,000 men and woman fighting the California wildfires right now, roughly 40% of them are convicted criminals, Capital Public Radio reports.
They are part of the California Department of Corrections' Conservation Camp, a program run in conjunction with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) that rehabilitates inmates by training them to fight wildfires.
California has relied on inmates to help fight wildfires since the '80s, and now nearly every one of the Conservation Camp inmates has been dispatched to central and northeast California, according to Capital Public Radio. There, wildfires have charred over 250 square miles of land across 15 counties in the past seven weeks.
Conservation Camp pays inmates $1 an hour for their help in emergency situations. They are also used in other emergencies like floods and earthquakes. There are 39 Conservation Camps across the state training some 4,000 inmates. Their work saves taxpayers about $80 million every year, according to the state.
The inmates receive 64 hours of training before being dispatched. They work five days a week but remain on-call 24/7.
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Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:47 pm to Bench McElroy
I hope criminals burn in.... a forest?
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:47 pm to Bench McElroy
That's like slave labor. Wildfires are racist.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:48 pm to Bench McElroy
I wish Louisiana would get back to doing chain gang labor. The roads would be much cleaner and prison overpopulation would decline.
This post was edited on 8/14/15 at 11:00 pm
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:50 pm to Bench McElroy
good idea.
put fricking charlie manson and scott peterson to work.
put fricking charlie manson and scott peterson to work.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:53 pm to Bench McElroy
California has a good idea for once. Let the scum turn into crispy critters if it helps the decent folk even a little bit.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:54 pm to Bench McElroy
Good idea.. Teach them a trade, responsibility, and actually try and rehabilitate them.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:55 pm to AUbagman
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Teach them a trade, responsibility, and actually try and rehabilitate them
But then who would burgle the houses?
WHO
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:56 pm to Rich Kotite
Scum? I'm almost positive death row isn't on the front lines. But hey, I'm sure your definition of scum and mine are vastly different.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:57 pm to HempHead
It's quite the predicament.
#policestate #corporateprisons
#policestate #corporateprisons
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:58 pm to AUbagman
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But hey, I'm sure your definition of scum and mine are vastly different.
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AUbagman
Yeah, it's a certainty.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:58 pm to Bench McElroy
Can they sue for smoke damage?
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:59 pm to Rich Kotite
We all know that ethics and morals vary from Southern fanbase to Southern fanbase, amirite? Totes different ways of life.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:01 pm to HempHead
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Totes
Any grown man that uses this word deserves to be dismissed offhand.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:04 pm to Rich Kotite
I'm a 12 year old girl, bitch.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:07 pm to Rich Kotite
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California has a good idea for once. Let the scum turn into crispy critters if it helps the decent folk even a little bit.
Good lord. These guys are the ones with a high probability of rehabilitation. Inmates have to apply, it's highly competitive, and they aren't accepted unless they have a clean disciplinary record. They live in honor camps in the forest with more independence than regular inmates, and they're supervised on the job by professional firefighters, not corrections officers. CA doesn't pull Mexican Mafia off the yard at Pelican Bay and put them on the fireline.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:13 pm to Bench McElroy
Lol, Louisiana chuckles at this a little bit.
The governor's own butler is a convicted murderer brought straight down here from angola. THe convicts are also up in the capital buildings as well doing menial labor. We put inmates in the cage to fight bulls at the annual angola rodeo and they constantly work hard in the fields as well.
The governor's own butler is a convicted murderer brought straight down here from angola. THe convicts are also up in the capital buildings as well doing menial labor. We put inmates in the cage to fight bulls at the annual angola rodeo and they constantly work hard in the fields as well.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:17 pm to Jim Rockford
You see then why there's little hope for society? We like to think we've evolved, but alas, social media and mass communication has proved otherwise. People still grow up in a bubble, comparing their genetics and raising to the lowest common denominator in order to feel better. People are still willing to literally burn people alive to alleviate their pent up anger from their circumstance that they've done nothing with. When you get down to it, if you're honest with yourself, every person on here could be in prison right now due to a past decision.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:30 pm to Bench McElroy
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Their work saves taxpayers about $80 million every year, according to the state.
And how much does their incarceration cost taxpayers every year?
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:36 pm to AUbagman
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if you're honest with yourself, every person on here could be in prison right now due to a past decision.
Ummm, no. You're fricking retarded. I haven't done anything to land in jail, because, and hear me out, I don't want to be in fricking prison.
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