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Hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are helping battle the destructive blazes that are rapidly spreading across southern California as a powerful windstorm devastates the region. The California department of corrections and rehabilitation (CDCR) said on Thursday that it had deployed 783 imprisoned firefighters while the county fights multiple out-of-control blazes fueled by extreme winds and dry conditions. The incarcerated crews are embedded with the California department of forestry and fire protection (Cal Fire) and its nearly 2,000 firefighters, who have been stretched thin from several simultaneous emergencies. CDCR operates more than 30 “fire camps” across the state where people serving state...

In 2003 then President George W. Bush signed into federal law the Prison Rape Elimination Act, i.e., PREA, passed by the US Congress with unanimous bi-partisan support. This federal law has been widely seen as a big advance forward in protecting the human rights and dignity of those who, despite their criminal violations of law and subsequent incarcerations, are entitled to serve their time free of rape, sexual abuse and sexual coercion by other inmates or compromised officers and staff. One major provision of PREA is a mandate for the US Department of Justice to "make the prevention of prison...

A friend of mine who works for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) tells me they're going to commute sentences for felons with the intent to release up to 10,000 criminals. Felons with up to twelve years left in their sentences will have the balance reduced to six months. If true this is a very good time to get the heck out of California. NOTE: I am posting this in Bloggers and Personal as I cannot find anything to confirm this just yet. I still think this needs to get out.