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Prison Labor in Spotlight

"This Is Not Rehabilitation This Is Slave Labor": People Are Shocked That Incarcerated Firefighters In California Are Paid As Little As $6 A Day

"It's really important that people remember they are people just like us and are doing a very important and dangerous job."

ZNetwork on MSN · 18h

Prison Labor in the Spotlight as Incarcerated California Firefighters Risk Lives for $5-10/Day

Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. As Los Angeles braces for more high winds that could bring what’s been described as “explosive fire growth,

BuzzFeed on MSN · 22h

People Are Shocked To Learn Incarcerated Firefighters In California Are Being Paid As Little As $6 A Day

"It's really important that people remember they are people just like us and are doing a very important and dangerous job." View Entire Post ›

Incarcerated Firefighters Battling the L.A. Wildfires

Wall Street Journal · 13h

The Incarcerated Firefighters Battling the L.A. Wildfires

California’s incarcerated firefighters battle wildfires for minimal pay. WSJ’s Ben C. Solomon joins one crew on the Los Angeles fire line, showing their critical role in protecting communities.

Newsweek on MSN · 5d

Incarcerated Firefighters Battle California Blazes for Low Pay, Redemption

Roughly 30 percent of firefighters battling the California wildfires are incarcerated, earning time off their sentences and up to $26.90 per day.

WBUR · 2d

Incarcerated firefighters work to put out LA wildfires

In California, hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are working to put out the fires that have destroyed more than 40,000 acres — an area larger than San Francisco.

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Kim Kardashian Advocates for Incarcerated Firefighters’ Pay Raise as Fires Devastate L.A.

Kim Kardashian is again leaping to defend the incarcerated and those she sees as unjustly treated by the U.S. government, ...

Alternet on MSN1h

Untold stories of LA fires: Incarcerated firefighters, Black Altadena and Octavia Butler’s warning

We 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, ...

‘We Need Everyone’: How Two Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters Are Building a Movement

This story originally published in 2022, but has been updated to reflect the recent fires ravaging neighborhoods across Los ...

Kim Kardashian calls for pay raise for incarcerated firefighters: 'I see them as heroes'

Kim Kardashian is calling for a pay raise for incarcerated firefighters, saying the "heroes" get "paid almost nothing" for ...

Rolling Out3d

Prison firefighters earn $1/hour in dangerous LA blazes

The reality star, Kim Kardashian, is using her massive platform to expose the unfair treatment of incarcerated firefighters.

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Kim Kardashian Pushes For Incarcerated Firefighters To Be Paid More Amid LA Blazes

Kardashian called incarcerated firefighters "heroes" as she asked Gov. Gavin Newsom to lift wages for those "risking their ...

The Marshall Project4d

Incarcerated Firefighters Do Risky, Low-Pay Work. Many Say It’s The Best Job Behind Bars.

More than 900 prison firefighters were responding to the crisis in Los Angeles — but their pay is low and the ethics of their ...

Why Incarcerated Firefighters Are Battling the L.A. Wildfires

As of Friday morning, 939 incarcerated firefighters have been working “around the clock cutting fire lines and removing fuel ...

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