[jvreagan]

Prisoner firefighters in California are volunteers that opt in and receive significantly reduced sentences for their service and often end up working for Calfire upon release.

[rurp]

According to this article from a couple years ago the convict firefighters are frequently excluded from doing those jobs after being released. https://www.axios.com/how-inmates-who-fight-wildfires-are-la...

[virtue3]

they -just- made a ruling that would overturn this, but this was not the case until -very-very-very- recently.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/20/california...