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8LXP TIL that California uses inmates to fight forest fires. Prisoners take the jobs because it reduces their sentence, gets them outside, and pays better than typical prison jobs.
VQg8 TIL that if each of the US states were a separate country, the 37 countries with the highest incarceration rates would all be US states.
BQ4e TIL that in California, they use prison labor to fight forest fires