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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here in California, prisoners are employed to fight wildfires.

Until very recently, former prisoners were not allowed to be employed as firefighters when they got out. That was corrected by Newsom in 2020.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Man, I fucking love that guy and what he's been doing. Him and my governor, as well as the governor of Michigan have been having a pissing contest to see who can be the best governor, and we're all winning.