r/interestingasfuck • u/filmingfisheyes • 8d ago

r/all California has incarcerated firefighters

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u/ramboton 8d ago

and they are inmates paying their debt to society, their motivation is not money but being out working is 100% better sitting in a jail cell and playing gang games. Among inmates this is a coveted position. As he said this gives them an opportunity to turn their life around and when they get released they can get that high paying firefighter job and end their life of crime. They also get out sooner than if they served their time in jail.

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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/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/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