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AloeVera

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9. I agree with you there. Nothing funny about prison labour..

Reply to Cirsium (Reply #5)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 02:57 PM

Jan 9

The whole idea of using inmates to fight dangerous wildfires that likely they had no or minimal training for demonsttes how little human rights they are accorded.

But mea culpa. My little "joke" was not appropriate here.

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