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. They have been working around the clock while earning as little as between $5.80 to $10.24 a day. For more on how California’s incarcerated firefighting program works, we speak to investigative journalist Keri Blakinger, who is herself formerly incarcerated, and who recently had to evacuate her home in Los Angeles.

Democracy Now!

@igd_news

“ The city’s 2024–2025 budget slashed about $17.6 million from the fire department, while increasing the budget for the city’s police force by $126 million, according to figures from the Los Angeles City Administrative Office."

https://newrepublic.com/post/189997/los-angeles-fire-fighting-budget-wildfires

#LosAngeles #wildfires #convictlabor
#incarceratedworkers

Los Angeles Officials Made the Horrific Fires So Much Worse

Officials gutted the city’s firefighting budget.

The New Republic
Forced Prison Labor Is on the Ballot

It’s shocking for many of us to learn that forced labor is actually legal as punishment for a crime. Ballot measures in Nevada and California this Election Day would outlaw forced labor in prisons.

Caught Employing Slaves, McDonald’s Promises to Do Better

The dire conditions of fast-food work cause enormous staff turnover, which puts franchisees in a constant search for desperate workers. It’s no wonder that one McDonald’s in England failed to notice that it was employing victims of human trafficking.

#ConvictLabor is and has always been about reinstating slavery.

#NeoFeudalism is coming. What are we going to do about it?

“Truth in sentencing, tough on crime & ‘three strikes’ a trifecta that reduces the cost of labour for capos & boosts private prison profits per inmate per day“ - Lora Norda CEO

https://jacobin.com/2024/06/private-prisons-sentencing-law-lobbying

“ In 2021, over five million people were under supervision by the criminal justice system,[2][3] with nearly two million people incarcerated in state or federal prisons and local jails. “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

#Privatisation #prisons #CoreCivic #Tennessee #convictlabor
#Capitalism

Private Prisons Are Profiting From Harsher Sentencing Laws

Private prisons across the US are lobbying lawmakers for stricter sentencing laws. Benefitting from increased occupancy rates, these corporations are filling their pockets and enriching their shareholders.

Convict labor was “…perfectly legal, since the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery, made one very consequential exception: ’Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.’”

“Convict leasing is the missing link between slavery…and the disparate impact of the criminal justice system on African Americans today.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/sugar-land-slave-convict-labor-history/
#Juneteenth #Slavery #ConvictLabor

Blood and Sugar

Can one very determined man get a booming Houston suburb to confront its troubled past?

Texas Monthly

https://archive.org/details/familysearch-and-prisons

FamilySearch and prisons by Burkely Herrmann

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