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Incarcerated firefighters do risky, low-pay work. Many say it's the best job behind bars.
The Marshall Project spotlights some of the incarcerated firefighters doing one of the riskiest, lowest-paying, but ...
I Was an Incarcerated Firefighter. Here’s What I Want People to Know.
I served California as a firefighter. I responded to car accidents, medical emergencies, and wildfires. I was deployed to the ...
The New Republic on MSN4d
How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Could Fuel a Prison Labor Boom
Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable ...
From prison labor to power: Folsom's role in electrifying Sacramento | Bartell's Backroads
FOLSOM, Calif. — At the edge of the American River near downtown Folsom is an old brick building that played a big part in ...
Truthout3d
Trump Wants to Send Incarcerated US Citizens to El Salvador
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump told reporters that he was open to the idea of sending incarcerated people — including U.S ...
With shocking secret footage, prison doc ‘The Alabama Solution’ should outrage the nation
Directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman sat down at our studio in Park City to discuss their remarkable investigative ...
California depends on prison labor to deal with climate disasters—Canada must avoid a similar model
As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are ...
AAP on MSN2d
Minimum prison time for terror symbols as Labor yields
People convicted of some terrorism offences and of displaying terror symbols will face mandatory prison time after a Labor ...
New Republic5d
How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Could Fuel a Prison Labor Boom
Bertram notes that the notion that prisons could serve as a self-sustaining economic engine, providing cheap labor for agricultural work, evolved into the system of prison farms that still exists ...