Thousands Of Firefighters In California Are Inmates, Being Paid $1 An Hour On The Line

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justsomeantifas:

Let this article be a reminder to yall, while the forest services are refusing to pay volunteer firefighters as forest fire season becomes critical, this absolutely will harm inmates forced into prison labor. 

california is not above abusing their power over prisoners. 

The article calls these people volunteers. But their other options beside volunteering are making even less money and being even more restricted. The word “volunteer” becomes weighted.

There are no true choices in prison. It is slave labor.

they literally explicitly say they want the prison population as full as possible so they don’t run out of cheap firefighter labor. they don’t even have a euphemism for it. fucking murder these pigs

“Voluntarism” under capitalism

Thousands Of Firefighters In California Are Inmates, Being Paid $1 An Hour On The Line