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Three firefighters carrying power tools walk through a forest.
Closing Argument January 11
Incarcerated Firefighters Do Risky, Low-Pay Work. Many Say It’s The Best Job Behind Bars.
More than 900 prison firefighters were responding to the crisis in Los Angeles — but their pay is low and the ethics of their choice are complicated.
By and , The Marshall Project, and , The Los Angeles Times
Inside Out September 2, 2021
Some prison labor programs lose money — even when prisoners work for pennies
Officials claim programs provide skills, but critics say there’s little evidence.
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Life Inside January 18, 2018
My First Job Out of Prison Was Back in Prison
“It felt like all eyes were on me.”
By David Van Horn as told to
Eduardo Amezcua, an inmate firefighter from the Antelope Conservation Camp mops up hot spots during the wildfires that devastated large swaths of California’s wine country in Sonoma County. Roughly 3,800 inmates in the state’s prison system are on the front lines of active wild fires this fall.
The Frame October 23, 2017
In California, the Prisoners Fighting the Wine Country Wildfires
Photographer Brian L. Frank captures the lives of men on the fire lines and at home in prison conservation camps.
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The joint resolution proposing the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified December 6, 1865, and abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime.
News September 27, 2016
A Primer on the Nationwide Prisoners’ Strike
Prisoners can be forced to work without pay — the Constitution says so.
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