Working on California’s Incarcerated Fire Crews: “It Is Kind of Like You’re a Slave”

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As firefighters are battling multiple huge blazes tearing through Los Angeles, California’s prisons have deployed more than 1,000 incarcerated people to battle on the frontlines. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said that, as of Wednesday morning, 1,116 […]