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People Are Shocked To Learn Incarcerated Firefighters In California Are Being Paid As Little As $6 A Day

"It's really important that people remember they are people just like us and are doing a very important and dangerous job."

Democracy Now · 22h

Prison Labor in the Spotlight as Incarcerated California Firefighters Risk Lives for $5-10/Day

Around Los Angeles, firefighting crews continue to battle the Palisades and Eaton fires and other smaller blazes. Nearly a thousand of the firefighters deployed to help contain the devastating fires are incarcerated.

LA fires live updates: 9 people charged with looting, DA says

About 92,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders and another 89,000 are under evacuation warnings. The Palisades Fire, which began in the Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7, has destroyed about 5,

Kim Kardashian wants higher pay rate for inmate firefighters

Hosted on MSN · 21h

Kim Kardashian Pushes For Incarcerated Firefighters To Be Paid More Amid LA Blazes

Kardashian called incarcerated firefighters "heroes" as she asked Gov. Gavin Newsom to lift wages for those "risking their life to save our lives and homes."

Hollywood Reporter on MSN · 1d

Kim Kardashian Advocates for Incarcerated Firefighters’ Pay Raise as Fires Devastate L.A.

Kim Kardashian is again leaping to defend the incarcerated and those she sees as unjustly treated by the U.S. government, this time advocating for incarcerated firemen in an Instagram Story posted over the weekend explaining how they are risking their lives to save the Los Angeles community for just $1 an hour.

USA Today · 2d

Kim Kardashian calls for pay raise for incarcerated firefighters: 'I see them as heroes'

Kim Kardashian is calling for a pay raise for incarcerated firefighters, saying the "heroes" get "paid almost nothing" for risking their lives.

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Why Incarcerated Firefighters Are Battling the L.A. Wildfires

As of Friday morning, 939 incarcerated firefighters have been working “around the clock cutting fire lines and removing fuel ...

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Incarcerated firefighters are making as little as $27 a day to battle L.A.’s fires

The program has been criticized for being exploitative, but some incarcerated people say the firefighting initiatives can be ...

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‘We Need Everyone’: How Two Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters Are Building a Movement

This story originally published in 2022, but has been updated to reflect the recent fires ravaging neighborhoods across Los ...

Incarcerated firefighters work to put out LA wildfires

In California, hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are working to put out the fires that have destroyed more than 40,000 ...

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California prisoner firefighter program draws harsh criticism amid L.A. wildfires

Months after Californians voted against an amendment to end inmate servitude, incarcerated firefighters are on the front ...

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California wildfire highlights prison labor as inmates battle blazes

As a destructive wildfire rages in California, the spotlight is on prison labor, with more than 700 incarcerated individuals ...

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