Comments on: For $1 An Hour, Inmates Fight Wildfires

Thousands Of Prisoners Are On The Fire Lines In Southern California

[sevenveils]

What happened to working on a chain gang?

[jeepmanjr]

Man...I''m sure thankful we have all them inmates to bail us out of the fires. I just knew California had a plan all along. So the next time someone breaks into your home and kills you and has the best *** of his life with your wife and under aged daughter just remember, he may be the one putting that millionaires house fire out next dry season. Holy cow...what would we do without the inmates!!

[okinup]

Rich republicans are used to this sorta being waited on.

[goldesprit]

Isn''t this a little like having the wrong folks guard our borders???

If you want to break your buddy out of prison--start a fire and find him in the crowd. Alakazam.

Also, statistics lie, especially if they start arresting more people--because more firefighters are needed.

This sort of short term thinking short circuits a much more subtle democracy.

WE DO need socialized medicine for all americans who want it.

We don''t need slave labor under any guise--it rots the society.

[nlm2383]

It''s a dollar an hour, barbaraf4. And if you read the whole story you would have seen that they have to meet certain stipulations and have to go thru training. We don''t see you out there for a dollar an hour trying to protect or help anyone, do we?

[Cas2dy]

Quote 1 From Article:
Not every inmate qualifies to be a firefighter. Those who do - male or female - must be physically fit, have no history of violent crime...

Quote 2 From Article:
"The program has helped me a lot physically and mentally," said Rosales, who was convicted of causing great bodily injury and making terrorist threats four years ago.


I appreciate that they have these guys out there making extremely good use of themselves, but these two facts contradict one another, a point that needs to be pondered...

[barbaraf4]

A dollar a day, and anything they can loot.

[tnt1954]

people in hell want ice water. firemen take it
to them every day. keep taking ice water to people
in hell. a flame-thrower can cause a heap of
damage. so many military people now, very cynical
and bitter, disillusioned, and quite out of sorts.
they ''can''t come home again''. it just isn''t the
same anymore. many of them now ''think pink''.
they wished they had developed the ''blue flue''.
an octopus which is a socket with too many plugs
in it, is quite a fire hazard also. yay jr. firemen.
keep those rags separate, spontaneous combustion.
blasting caps, be careful of those. all those
chemicals in the garage to watch out for.
paint thinner? one little spark on the team,
or the wiring in your house needs to be re-done.
i don''t wanna wake in hell-fire all around me.
a drunk with a careless cigarette at 3 am
with his bimbo in tow. or mad because he
couldn''t even pick up at the midnight hour when
he thought her love would surely shine. motives
by the zillions. methods by the zillions.
fire insurance claims examiners. firemen''s logs
and diaries. the case of the captain of the
arson squad, secretly working for the multi-ethnic
mafia. an equal opportunity employer. whoa dude.

[jowand]

This is the kind of slavery they the white supremacist have for Black people in America why they are imprisoned at such a much higher rate than in any African country or anywhere else in the world.

It is also interested that the US is always wailing on the Chinese for using prison labor; but the US does this kind of slavery business all the time.

Posted by Agnim at 07:04 PM : Oct 27, 2007

They don''t have to go, and they don''t pick people by their race. Most African dictators don''t imprison people who really anoy them they kill them. If you don''t want to do the time don''t do the crime, eveyone in jail is innocent.

[Krazcarl]

Speakingup...Your bitter and it is apparent these folks will reenter society some day and your attitude alienates them further and does no one any good. You mean to tell me if some con firefighters saved your home you''d whine a buck a hour was to much and they should have rot in prison let my house burn to the ground I''m a man of convictions. I see spanking you as a child did no good.

[agnim]

This is the kind of slavery they the white supremacist have for Black people in America why they are imprisoned at such a much higher rate than in any African country or anywhere else in the world.

It is also interested that the US is always wailing on the Chinese for using prison labor; but the US does this kind of slavery business all the time.

[cantshutup]

This is a good idea...if they want to improve the program, they should not let inmates earn any time off their sentences and they should be paid nothing...i''m all for it!

[speakinup]

"These men and women are heroes and deserve our praise. They are doing difficult, life-threatening work for very little money. They volunteered and trained for this work. Thank you to each and every one of them! Posted by Don5028

I think you are a little off base there Don5028. Maybe my compliments to them for fighting the fires, but make no mistake, these folks aren''t ''heros''.

They want to be outside their punishment area (cellblock). I imagine it gets pretty *** boring in there. As a result they are willing to do just about anything asked of them to lead semi-normal lives.

Their motives for doing the work is NOT because they are heros in action. Don''t fool yourself, not even for a second.

[Krazcarl]

This is great never agreed with dumping ex cons on the streets broke they want to work let them I won''t whine over a buck an hour in the long run this will pay two fold basically free firefighters and ex cons with some cash to restart their life less likely to run to crime. There should be a lot more of this I''ve always been a proponent of rehabilitation.

[don5028]

These men and women are heroes and deserve our praise. They are doing difficult, life-threatening work for very little money. They volunteered and trained for this work. Thank you to each and every one of them!

[speakinup]

jerryomara - You are a credit to the Democratic Party.

[maedean]

They should be paid nothing. They sit in prison eating up our tax dollars and have paid dental and medical. This should be mandatory of all inmates. Make these loosers good for something...

[hypnotoad72]

When do good citizens become bad ones?

That having been said, most people in jail definitely DESERVE to be there.

And it''s better not to get in there in the first place. It stays on one''s record and, regardless of how kind any society is, having such a mark on one''s record is not a good thing.

[tucano2]

Lest we forget, "thanks for your service".

[tucano2]

Twenty-four dollars a day is pretty good income for a convicted illegal alien arson terrorist.