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I was thinking Martha Stewart, then thought that the reactionary repubs of this board probably wouldn't sympathize with her. It got me to thinking...that ol' Martha is the perfect scapegoat!! Noone is upset about her getting made an example of, and at the same time the media feeding frenzy virtually guarantees no-cost advertising that our justice department is "cracking down" on those terrible people who have removed our trust in the legitimacy of the stock market.

 

Well, at least they're cracking down on one high-profile miscreant with anti-charisma, anyway...

 

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Inmates helped families and homes in Cali fires.

 

Californians Owe Homes, Lives to Inmates

 

"We save million-dollar homes for a dollar an hour," said Ricky Frank, 33, doing a 10-year stretch for theft. "You get to help people. It's better doing this than being locked up."

 

 

More than half of the state's 3,800 full-time wildland firefighters are prison inmates earning $1 an hour as they work off sentences for nonviolent crimes such as theft and drug possession. About 2,150 offenders — either minimum security wards of the California Youth Authority or adults sentenced to the California Department of Corrections — have been out battling the flames.

 

"We're trying to do something to save taxpayer money, we're trying to do good quality work, we're trying to get these guys to see how good it feels when you're not on the street corner selling drugs," Peck said.

 

Violent criminals, sex offenders and escape risks aren't eligible. Those selected for the program generally have short sentences remaining, so there's an incentive not to flee or cause trouble, which could earn a longer term or a transfer back behind bars.

 

 

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