California prison firefighters still face exploitation despite new career path law

1. Hmm, let me guess, they will be placed in the most dangerous areas with inadequate supplies. SMH

2. Thank you for this news report and interview. A wonderful example of applying Restorative Justice technology.

3. This is so fucking sick

4. The FS is racist …we shall 👀👀2020

5. https://www.usgs.gov/news/comprehensive-study-finds-widespread-mercury-contamination-across-western-north-america?qt-news_science_products=3#qt-news_science_products
   It's not just the wildfires, it's the mercury.

6. Kamala Harris was keeping people in jail past their time to fight these fires just a reminder

7. Specifically the question should be how much is Corrections Corporation of America and other correctional facilities making off these people who are putting their lives on the line for $1.43 a day that slave labor

8. Major plot twist.
   Ultimately, it won't matter whether convicted criminals become firefighters.
   Because…
   I have a gut feeling by mid decade.
   Starting around 2024 going forward.
   Out of nowhere.
   We are suddenly going to see next-generation heavy duty industrial aerial and ground worker drones specifically designed for firefighting introduced into the field.
   Especially as firefighting is a dangerous occupation and companies can give the excuse that it'll save human lives by not having to put as many firefighters in danger.
   Ultimately however…
   Whatever legislation introduced to help convicted criminals land certain occupations will become null and void as technology in the form of mass machine automation and artificial intelligence obviates many of those jobs and professions by decade's end.

9. yeah $1 an hour…

10. I like the program for those that really want to be a part of civil society again. Their records should not become a barrier to join us once again. I do worry about victims of these new inductees. If there are restitution stipulations in the form of monetary compensation to victims, Would it be proper to dismiss those damages as well? But everyone deserves a second chance as long as you make things right with who you hurt as a part of that process.

11. VP candidate Harris giggled while bragging about saving the state millions by illegally blocking the release of some of these men.

12. Sounds good…. But we'll see…

13. Cali is so fickle; from "three strikes" to "expungement & back into the 'game". Having lived in and left the Glitz State I guess I should not be surprised that those who remain choose to continue to chase the delusion of top-down change via legislation..

14. I find the timing of this bill, so sudden and that it passed and was enacted by Newsom, as a way to smooth off the very rough edges of ex-AG Kamala Harris's sins. Being that if Biden wins, he won't last too long due to his mental decline, and Kamala, chosen and crowned by Wall Street from Day One (but never popular with the people voting in the Dem primary) will become president, by default. The legislator even says here how grateful they are to the incarcerated firefighters on how much they save the state. It is all about money for these people, in the fifth largest economy in the world (CA) contained within the wealthiest country on earth (USA), owned and operated by a rapacious capitalistic oligarchy.

    Anyway, we will have to see how this will actually play out in real world scenarios. CA is certainly not ending this program to use imprisoned bodies for nearly free to fight their fires, which are only increasing in frequency and severity as global heating runs unabated. Why would they pay $3,700 a month to a free firefighter when they will continue to have plenty of prison laborers who, even if they paid them a little more, would still cost the state less than what free men and women would demand?

    I do appreciate the coverage, though, TRNN. Thanks.

15. 👍❤️🇨🇦

16. I don't understand why they need this law. The only people able to get into CDCR fire camps are inmates who have the lowest points in the system. These fire camps don't have a fence around them and usually don't even have a corrections officer. If the state excepts them while incarcerated why should it be any different when they are released. They are trained in all aspects as a Cal Firefighter and have experience. They have been told for years that they were able to be a Cal Firefighter. Only with Cal Fire and not county or city.

17. All the more reasons for the state to put more people in jail

18. They need to do this all over the country

19. That’s bs the send people off like enlisting for war

20. Just goes to show that the prison industrial system is using many of these men to fill the cells of these investment prisons. If they were all the bad why would they chose to give them a chance at a career as fire fighters? Why not provide these opportunities before destroying their lives in the first place.

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