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| Supervisors OK New Agreement for Use of Inmate Labor to Fight Fires |
| By patch.com |
| Published: 07/10/2015 |
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Under a revised agreement with the state that the Board of Supervisors approved Tuesday, the cost of deploying Riverside County jail inmates to fight wildfires will be a lot less. In a 5-0 vote, the board signed off on an amended compact with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reimburse the agency at the rate of $10 per day for putting county prisoners to work on the fire lines, or for brush clearance operations. Under a previous agreement, the per diem reimbursement rate was $46.19 per inmate per day. While the daily use rate was slashed, the training rate nearly doubled from $46.19 to $81, according to CDCR documents. The agency said it takes an average 38 days to train inmates on hand crew firefighting procedures and techniques. Read More. |
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