Earth Day 2021: Incarcerated Firefighters on the Frontlines
The connections between climate crisis and the prison industrial complex may not be immediately obvious. But Californians living through the escalating intensity of annual wildfires have no choice but to confront our state’s reliance on the labor of incarcerated firefighters.
California houses 192 crews of incarcerated firefighters across the state: people designated as “low-risk” are...