California, Fire and Slave Labor
Prison Labor in the Spotlight as Incarcerated California Firefighters Risk Lives for $5-10/Day
Around Los Angeles, firefighting crews continue to battle the Palisades and Eaton fires and other smaller blazes. Nearly a thousand of the firefighters deployed to help contain the devastating fires are incarcerated.
Kardashian, Pacific Palisades Fire
California’s incarcerated firefighters battle wildfires for minimal pay. WSJ’s Ben C. Solomon joins one crew on the Los ...
Alternet on MSN4h
Untold stories of LA fires: Incarcerated firefighters, Black Altadena and Octavia Butler’s warningWe continue our coverage of the devastating wildfires in Southern California, which have killed at least 24 people as of Monday. Some 150,000 more have been forced to evacuate their homes and over 40, ...
More than 900 prison firefighters were responding to the crisis in Los Angeles — but their pay is low and the ethics of their ...
As of Friday morning, 939 incarcerated firefighters have been working “around the clock cutting fire lines and removing fuel ...
This story originally published in 2022, but has been updated to reflect the recent fires ravaging neighborhoods across Los ...
California’s century-old prisoner firefighter program is drawing fresh criticism as hundreds of incarcerated people have ...
As brush fires continue to spread across Los Angeles County, more than 1,000 prisoners, working as "incarcerated firefighters ...
News Nation on MSN2d
Incarcerated firefighter program turns ‘negative into positive’Royal Ramey previously worked as a firefighter while incarcerated and now wants to help others follow a similar path.
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