Prisoners are getting paid $2 a day to fight California wildfires - Vox

<![endif] Log In / Sign Up Thursday, July 31, 2014 Updated by Dara Lind on July 31, 2014, 3:00 p.m. ET @DLind Tweet Share on Twitter Share Share on Facebook +1 LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn Email Email Print Print Inmate firefighters working as part of a "Conservation Camp" fire crew. CAL FIRE Don't miss stories. Follow Vox! Follow Four thousand of the fifteen thousand people fighting wildfires in California this season aren't professional firefighters. They're men and women serving out their state prison terms by working full-time in fire crews, under a state program called "Conservation Camps." San Francisco-based news station KQED traveled with one 16-inmate fire crew, and the professional firefighter leading them, as they fought the Bully Fire, a 22,600-acre w...

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