Inmates play major role in fire fight

AP via Yahoo! ^ | 10/27/07 | GARANCE BURKE

[Squawk 8888]

The fact is that no matter how tough you make criminal laws most crooks don’t deserve to be locked up for life, therefore they are going to get out eventually. Anything that keeps them out, such as skills training and “attitude adjustment”, is a good thing. The sense of teamwork developed on the fire line alone is enough reason to do this.

[Squawk 8888]

Any fall can kill. Or to be more accurate, any sudden stop at the end can kill.

[Abathar]

Fortunately the only time that they are used is only after all the union workers are already deployed I think. Kind of hard to b*tch about non-union work when houses are going up all around you from lack of firefighters.

[Squawk 8888]

True. The only way it would happen here is if they made the call during a crisis- any other time the unions would raise hell and our government would cave to them.

[pyx]

Not every inmate qualifies to be a firefighter. Those who do — male or female — must be physically fit, have no history of violent crime and have four to 36 months remaining on their sentences, Unger said.

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"The program has helped me a lot physically and mentally," said Rosales, who was convicted of causing great bodily injury and making terrorist threats four years ago.

Ooookay.

[Abathar]

But he did in in such a non-violent way though....