California enslaves 400 prisoners to fight wildfires. : usa

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

How weird that Elon Musk didn't build a small fire extinguishing submarine.

[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 6 points 11 months ago

Inb4 he calls the firefighters pedophiles

[-] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago

This is a land grab. Same as Palestine. Same as Hawaii. They stopped the prescribed burns, the cut the fire department. They gave away the citizens water. To top it off insurance was cut.

This was a land grab.

[+] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[+] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world -10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So I think enslaves is a bit much here.

This is a voluntary program, and I'm not getting the impression it's the do this or we punish you voluntary either.

Meanwhile there are actual prisons that will force labor or severely punish you for refusing. That's enslaved.

It's also possible that the fire fighting is voluntary, but if not this, it would have been other mandatory slave work.

Yes there are slaves in prison, I'm just not entirely sure this specific circumstance is it. They are getting slaves wages though.

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[+] charonn0@startrek.website -14 points 11 months ago

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[+] Anticorp@lemmy.world -31 points 11 months ago

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.

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