December 3, 2011
Meeting to focus on inmate firefighters
Assemblyman Kevin Jeffries, R-Lake Elsinore, Chair of the Rural Fire Protection Working Group, has called a meeting for Monday at the State Capitol to discuss the potential loss of inmate fire crews under the state's prison realignment program.
The state runs one such camp in Solano County near Suisun City.
"While much of the discussion surrounding the realignment program has dealt with the early release of criminals and new cost burdens to local governments, a less publicized problem is the impact that these early releases may have on our state's ability to fight wildfires," said Jeffries in a press release announcing Monday's meeting...
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