Collected Item: “Incarcerated Firefighters in California”
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Incarcerated Firefighters in California
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This Tweet shows that while California depends on prison labor for their wildfire firefighting, these same people are not eligible to work as firefighters once they are released from incarceration.
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incarceration, prison, prison labor, firefighter, California
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https://twitter.com/jamesking0314/status/1296566484529946624
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James King
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2020-08-20