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Collected Item: “Incarcerated firefighters give 3 million hours”

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Incarcerated firefighters give 3 million hours

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This Tweet expresses dissatisfaction with incarcerated firefighters who give so many hours and save the state of California millions of dollars every year, but none of that savings is put into supporting them with re entering society.

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incarcerated firefighters, prison, California, money, re entry, society

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https://twitter.com/akhan1437/status/1297328265833586693

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Adnan Khan

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2020-08-22
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