California enslaves 400 prisoners to fight wildfires.
California enslaves 400 prisoners to fight wildfires.
The firefighters earn $5.80-$10.24 per day plus $1 an hour when responding to active emergencies, according to CDCR
Yikes, seeing people come out of the woodworks to defend slavery...
Slavery should be abolished.
This shouldn't be a controversial beleif in 2025.
It is for a lot of people below for some reason.
Lmfao at the absolutely classic .world responses in this thread. "Slavery is good actually". You guys play your role too a T.
Fire camp is a program that most prisoners actually want to get into. They get to learn useful skills, the accommodations are better, and the prisoners there don't want to get removed from the program so they're unlikely to be violent. I have a friend who spent 3 years in that program and he greatly preferred it to the prison he transferred from.
Tolerable accommodations, learning skills that can be put to use on the outside, and no fear of violence should be some of the basics of a prison system. The fact that our prison system is so fucked that slavery seems like a better deal isn't a credit to slavery, it's evidence of a horrifically broken prison system.
Our prison system absolutely has some major flaws, but fire camp is what you said, tolerable conditions, the ability to learn job skills and work outside, and learn a skill. You can't guarantee safety from violence among violent people unless they are isolated, and that's a worse punishment than anything. What I'm saying is that your criticisms of the general prison system aren't applicable to fire camp, because it offers the things you mentioned.
Getting paid 50 cents an hour to get put in a life-threatening situation because the state doesn't want to hire firefighters, and would rather pay its prison population a pittance.
Always a little disturbing to see these comments. Cause every single time they are made I see phrases like "most prisoners" just straight up acknowledging that it's not all. Hand waving that away. Creepy.
Not to mention other things like, is it actually true that most prisoners would want to get put in a life threatening situation?
And why are we not acknowledging that the US regime gives prisoners these "choices": go outside and die for the state, work on our prison farms, get contracted out to private companies, or stare at a wall in a cell. Truly an evil empire that should not be apologized for.