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California’s Prison Covid-19 Outbreak Isn’t Behind Its Firefighter Shortage
Title (Dublin Core)
California’s Prison Covid-19 Outbreak Isn’t Behind Its Firefighter Shortage
Description (Dublin Core)
California, one of the most fire prone states in the nation, still relies on prisoners as firefighters. With a particularly bad fire season and a viral pandemic still raging through the country they find themselves in a precarious situation. In an effort to slow the spread of the virus correctional facilities have been releasing some incarcerated persons early. In California over three hundred of their prison labor firefighters have been released since July. This article explains more of the details.
California, incarceration, firefighter, wildfire, prison labor, early release, Covid
Date (Dublin Core)
August 20, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Yessenia Funes
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Chris Twing
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Gizmodo
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Environment & Landscape
English
Government State
English
Labor
English
News coverage
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
wildfire
firefighter
prison
early release
pandemic
California
Collection (Dublin Core)
Incarceration
Environment
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
08/22/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
08/24/2020
08/02/2022
09/24/2024
This item was submitted on August 22, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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