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California enslaves 400 prisoners to fight wildfires. (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 8 points 19 hours ago

It's worse. If the basic prisonfood is insufficient, which is common. prisoners need to work to buy more nutritional meals. Or they can risk getting sick and dying, whichever.

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