California continues to use pseudo slave-labor to fight its wildfires

Note: I also unpack and explain this on Episode #117 of The Breakdown podcast.

Right now, as wildfires rage out of control up and down California, about 20 percent of the people fighting those fires are inmates at California’s jails and prisons. In total, in any given year, nearly 4,000 incarcerated people are doing this work in the Golden State. Low est…