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Paid as little as $9 a day: Hundreds of prisoners are fighting the LA fires (www.sbs.com.au)
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According to a 2018 Time Magazine report, incarcerated firefighters were four times more likely to sustain injuries compared with professional firefighters working on the same fires.

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[–] Amoxtli -1 points 1 month ago

What about all that cheap labor from across the border? California could be saving big.