30% of California’s firefighters are incarcerated, and many make as little as $6 a day.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Yeah, this title is less than great. When I read it, I initially interpreted as them deciding to pay full wages to firefighters who had engaged in on-the-job misconduct or something, which made no sense.

    It should’ve read “California introduces new bill to pay prison slaves forced to labor as firefighters the same wage as free firefighters.”