As the Malibu wildfire nears full containment, it is very worth noting that about 1,100 male and female nonviolent drug offenders normally warehoused in California prisons were called upon to risk life and limb fighting last month’s massively devastating blazes. In fact, nearly one in eight of all firefighters who participated were drug offenders.
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Sunday, 16 December 2007
California Sent 1,000 Drug Offenders to Fight the Forest Fire
Posted by curdy_41 at 12:09
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In the 80's,I was in a B.C.corrections facility.We were used to reforrest the mountains around the Chilliwack area.Never mind the insanity of logging clear cuts on mountain sides.I was injured and was never right again.I'd never worked in the bush and had no clue what I was doing.With the privatization of prisons and the back lash over prisoners rights.Such abuses are probably more the norm than the exception.
Good words.
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