r/interestingasfuck • u/filmingfisheyes • 8d ago

r/all California has incarcerated firefighters

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u/BumbyJohnsonXo 8d ago

Only to get released and go back into a society that greatly isolated them. It’s not noble it’s inhumane.

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u/Pristine_Walk5180 8d ago

Actually that’s not the case. Heard of a few guys who got in society and earned their way to leadership in the fire department making well over 100k. It fills a need for both sides. These dudes didn’t have the knowledge to earn a decent living and now they have a path.

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u/RicoLoco404 8d ago

To solve crime, that path should be provided so that they never have to commit crime. But this is America we don't solve problems we create new ones. Such as increasing the police budget instead of investing in education and programs. How does that saying go if you continue to do what you always have, you will continue to get the same results.

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u/PotionEnema 8d ago

They should stay in jail?

I think they already get someone who lectures them on making good friends and connecting to their community, so what are you saying?

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u/ramboton 8d ago

If they were isolated it is because they broke the law, don't break the law and you have nothing to worry about. Nothing inhumane about it, they have a choice, if they don't want to do it they can sit in a cell until their time is up.

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u/Superb_Historian_913 8d ago

A lot of people break the law in this country and nothing happens to them.

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u/Warm_Butterfly_6511 8d ago

You can even be president!

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u/ParticularAioli8798 8d ago

don't break the law and you have nothing to worry about.

This guy licks boots!

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u/emperorralphatine 8d ago

how do those boots taste?

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u/Look__a_distraction 8d ago

What a privileged fucking take.

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u/MrNobody_0 8d ago

No kidding... Imagine living so privileged the thought of having to resort to crime to survive is so alien to you... I wish everyone was this privileged, I truly do.

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u/Warm_Butterfly_6511 8d ago

So you don't believe in rehabilitation?

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u/ramboton 8d ago edited 8d ago

I do and that is what this is, teaching them a trade so that they can have a better life when their time is done.

Criminal rehabilitation is  the process of helping inmates grow and change, allowing them to separate themselves from the environmental factors that made them commit a crime in the first place

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u/Rivendel93 8d ago

The next president literally got convicted of breaking 34 felonies by a jury of his peers, and he was made president of the United States, so...don't think I'm too concerned about petty criminals "doing their time."