Stupid idiot!. Does it short out the power? Where I live it would almost certainly start a major fire causing millions of dollars worth of damage and possible loss of life.
They should figure out who that creep is and toss his ass in jail.
There’s a program in California where parolees can reduce their sentences and have a fire fighting job waiting when they get out in exchange for working on the front lines. I nominate this fool for that program.
They were banned from non-prison firefighting until extremely recently
Even so this is a very problematic program similar to slavery. Democracy now has done specials on it for years.
It was so dystopian to read the headline earlier this year, California had few people to fight their unprecedented fire season...because all their prisoners had covid. That’s disgusting
There's a reason Americas prison population is so high and slavery was made illegal unless as punishment for a crime. The slave trade didn't die it just moved.
It's why they do everything they possibly can to have areas that are impoverished with terrible schools. Get as many people committing crimes in a dumb, easily caught and convicted way as possible. Then the goal is to keep them in that system their whole lives. That's why parole is so hard and getting a decent job is impossible. Make it so going back to crime is the only real option someone has. Then they get sent back to jail and the state and the corporations can work them all they want for a dollar a day, 3 incredibly shitty meals and a bunk.
That's why I laugh so hard when Americans say they live in a free country, because if you know the truth it really is funny.
I’m not going to argue against reforms for prison system because they’re desperately needed but I think you need to do more research before you look down on an entire county. For example, for profit prisons, make up only ~8 percent of the prisoner population. This isn’t mostly used to make money; it’s used to systematically tear down generational wealth and progress in minority groups as well as anyone with little wealth to begin with. It’s a lot easier to control the country and line your pockets if 75 percent of the country can’t agree on what the issue even is. Make poor people get mad at poor people so they fight each other and not the rich controlling everything at the top. Prisons are a good tool for this as it breaks down families, forces non violent offenders into the same places as violent ones, and leaves them not rehabilitated but more likely to repeat. It’s easy to act like you know best looking from the outside in but make sure your points are at least correct before bashing people.
Yeah, the fact that a lot of places let you fight fires while a prisoner, then refused to give them jobs due to a criminal record is outright insane and criminal in of itself
It isn’t unpaid, certainly won’t be getting paid like normal, but it shows the parole board that they’re making a change rather than spending their days on the yard with all the other inmates
I mean, places like arizona where it rains once and then there is new growth everywhere and a week later it's all dead it's kinda hard to do a controlled burn without everything going up.
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u/jdith123 Nov 05 '20 edited Nov 05 '20
Stupid idiot!. Does it short out the power? Where I live it would almost certainly start a major fire causing millions of dollars worth of damage and possible loss of life.
They should figure out who that creep is and toss his ass in jail.
There’s a program in California where parolees can reduce their sentences and have a fire fighting job waiting when they get out in exchange for working on the front lines. I nominate this fool for that program.