California introduces new bill to pay incarcerated firefighters the same wage as non-incarcerated firefighters

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California introduces new bill to pay incarcerated firefighters the same wage as non-incarcerated firefighters

Last June, months before her release date, Paula Drake remembers getting called to fight the Gorman Fire in Los Angeles County, California. She was part of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Malibu Conservation Camp #13, which is jointly operated by CDCR and the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACFD). When her crew arrived at the fire, she remembers, it covered about 500 acres, but by the next day, it had spread to…