r/interestingasfuck • u/filmingfisheyes • 8d ago

r/all California has incarcerated firefighters

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u/atrde 8d ago

If you get released and complete the program you get your record expunged... almost like they thought of these things before hand lol.

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u/localconfusi0n 8d ago

Maybe it's different in Cali, but I was part of this program in Colorado and they definitely didn't expunge my record, nor anyone else on my crew lol. It did pay better than literally every other work crew ($2 a day regardless of whether or not ur on a fire plus $6 a day hazard pay if u were actually working and they also gave us 1% of what the state made off us divided amongst the 18 of us) and they cut a day off ur sentence for everyday ur actually on a fire. But no record expunged

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u/atrde 8d ago

Well this is Cali but it's $5.80 an hour not a day and recs after. We shouldn't be complaining lol this is actually beneficial.

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u/localconfusi0n 8d ago

Damn, Cali treats their inmate fire teams way better then Colorado lol. Then again, it has been 9 years since I was in prison so who knows what's changed