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California Pays Inmates $1 an Hour to Fight Wildfires

by Arthur Rizer

Aug 10, 2018

issues: Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Education, Housing, Jobs, Occupational Licensing, Prison Reform

originally published in Nonprofit Quarterly

“The state of California is unabashed by that fact,” the director of Criminal Justice & Civil Liberties Policy at the conservative R Street Institute told Philip Wegmann of the Washington Examiner.

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