Article 6TJ8C Prison Labor in the Spotlight as Incarcerated California Firefighters Risk Lives for $5-10/Day

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

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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. They have been working around the clock while earning as little as between $5.80 to $10.24 a day. For more on how California's incarcerated firefighting program works, we speak to investigative journalist Keri Blakinger, who is herself formerly incarcerated, and who recently had to evacuate her home in Los Angeles.

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