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In a First, California Moves Toward Paying Incarcerated Firefighters Minimum Wage
(brokeassstuart.com)
Best I can do is minimum wage for grueling, dangerous work.
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Using prison slave labour for firefighting is literally the dumbest shit I've ever heard even ignoring all the ethical issues. You know who I don't want in charge of saving my life from a fire? Someone who's being forced to do it. Because that person probably won't try very hard.
Uh... they're still people. They like doing good rewarding things and they like learning real skills.
In this case they aren't ever in neighborhoods spraying down homes. These are the guys in hills cutting fire breaks to stop the fires from ever reaching homes.
None of these fire fighters are forced. Its a job that they earn privileges for doing. They're probably not as gung-ho about it as someone who's made a career of it but they aren't slaves like you're imagining.